Anyone ever been institutionalized?

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Let me clarify.
By "institutionalized" I meant: confined to a mental hospital/insane asylum/psychiatric ward/halfway house or some other place where you are scrutinized for the stability of your mental state and are generally limited in the day-to-day freedoms that most people take for granted.

I myself have been through the wringer of therapists, psychiatrists, and psychologists, but thankfully never ended up in a place like that.

The hospital my dad took me too looked like some normal building and it was a hospital where people go. It wasn't any hospital people go when they are sick or hurt. I am not sure what kind of hospital it was. But when I got there, I heard someone freaking out because they were screaming.

To be frank, I am not Institutionalized.

I am not a barbarian too. Just a normal man.

Happy, you were not institutionalized and this only matters

Yeah I have, no matter what you say to mental health professionals they are never in a receptive state to understand, they are too rigid in their beliefs, and they say "we" have a "Theory Of Mind" dysfunction?

Yes, they surely do!

It was about twenty years ago now. I spent time in the psych ward, can't
remember if it was one or two weeks now . What a waist of time.
I sure hope hospitals in small town Canada are more clued in now about
the autism spectrum. I was very suicidal. Things have always bothered me
more than they should. The typical failers of someone: quote "quite along
ways on the autism spectrum" did not make for a joyous life.
Finialy am feeling better about myself after my DX.
Came close to spending more time in the psych ward
but the antidepresants must have helped.

I've been locked up four different times between the ages of 17 and 21. It was all very short-term, though. The longest I was ever in was for a week straight. When I get stressed and I feel like I can't cope, I get suicidal, so that's why. I've gotten a bit better about it as I've gotten older.

My parents had me committed when I was 13 for 2 weeks or so. This was after many visits to many different shrinks. Funny thing was....they told me & my parents that I was normal. I know I am anything but normal. Wasn't a normal toddler, little girl, pre-teen, teenager, let alone an adult. I still have no clue what it's like to be normal, because I can only be the defective dysfunctional creature I am. The other thing was is that the psych ward was full of adults, no kids my age. Closest I got to a peer was someone who was in her late teens. So how did they come up with that conclusion? I'll never understand. Looking back on my life, I've always been the oddball.

No, and I find it hilarious that anyone would consider the thought of it. I'm a lot more sane than 95% of the people I know in real life. These are the people that think that wet grass is more likely to catch on fire, and if they stick something in one ear, it will come out the other.