I was sent to an Approved School at age 12. In three years I absconded best part of 20 times and hitch hiked around the country. In school I was well behaved and cooperative but once the itchy feet started that was it, I was off on my travels. I used to get caned and locked up in solitary for a few weeks when I was returned, but wasn't long before I was off again. I had other issues that caused problems but I was never given a label or a diagnosis. I wasn't ill. I had made a decision that I wasn't going to accept what was happening to me and I didn't, at least until it suited me. Most lads were out in 18 months, I did the full three years and they never broke me. I wonder what they would make of it nowadays.
Medicalisation of an attitude
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Paul99
Über Member
[QUOTE 2535154, member: 45"]I used to work with a bloke whose life was ruined because his mom got pregnant out of marriage and they were locked in a cottage hospital. Yeah, the old days eh?[/quote]
His whole life was ruined was it? And then he had to go and work with you. Couldn't catch a break could he.
His whole life was ruined was it? And then he had to go and work with you. Couldn't catch a break could he.
Arch
Married to Night Train
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- Salford, UK
[QUOTE 2535154, member: 45"]I used to work with a bloke whose life was ruined because his mom got pregnant out of marriage and they were locked in a cottage hospital. Yeah, the old days eh?[/quote]
Yeah, I miss cholera....
Yeah, I miss cholera....
Stephenite
Membå
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- OslO
They'd give you a pill.
Which is the upside of this. If GSK & co come with a drug that will make my 2-year-old eat his greens, stop saying 'No' automatically to any question, and throwing stuff about the apartment I'll be first in the queue.
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vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
Never mind Vernon, soon be (yet another) holiday time, eh?
Yep. My last as a classroom teacher
craigwend
Grimpeur des terrains plats
classic33
Leg End Member
You teach classrooms!Yep. My last as a classroom teacher
Borstal wouldn't work nowadays. Borstal worked by the screws being bigger and harder bas**rds than the inmates. Disobey an order, give a screw some lip and you were in line for a good beating.
Nowadays screws wouldn't be allowed to touch the poor misunderstood children, probably even raising a voice would be classed as abuse. That is why Borstal wouldn't work.
PaulSB
Squire
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- Chorley, Lancashire
I don't often wander in here but tonight have been unfortunate enough to do so.
As a parent of a young man with special needs who has, and will, require support his entire life I have to say I've not read such ill-informed nonsense for a very long time. Bitch all you like about modern thinking and diagnosis but if you've no idea of the reality try thinking twice.
I had thought society was changing, sadly not it seems.
As a parent of a young man with special needs who has, and will, require support his entire life I have to say I've not read such ill-informed nonsense for a very long time. Bitch all you like about modern thinking and diagnosis but if you've no idea of the reality try thinking twice.
I had thought society was changing, sadly not it seems.
Noodley
Guest
Unfortunately there is a tendency for people to type a right lot of bollocks. They seem to read the 'papers or listen to blokes in the pub, and think that this equates to knowing stuff. Such is life, I suppose.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
I think that the original purpose of this thread was to point out something entirely different.
It was my fear of screws that made me grow up to be such a fine citizen.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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Never hacked it as a joiner?
