kraftiekortie wrote:
Rose Marie (Rosemary) Kennedy might have been mildly intellectually disabled. Her family was ashamed of her; they kept her hidden from public view. She was able to write in her diary, and to attend social functions.
Around the time she was 21, it was decided that she should be given a lobotomy. This involves, to a certain extent, a cauterization of the brain.
The lobotomy made her into a virtual vegetable, and she was institutionalized until she passed away about 10 years ago when she was in her 80s.
Jeeeez -- that's awful. I didn't intend to make that type of association with my comment. I think you know I don't really want or need a lobotomy, that I don't have an intellectual disability or take those types of meds, and that my father and brother thought the world of me without shame.
RIP Rose
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