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Professor Lundquist, in a seminar on compulsive thinkers, illustrates his brain-stapling technique.
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Professor Lundquist, in a seminar on compulsive thinkers, illustrates his brain-stapling technique.
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Rosemary Kennedy.
Welp.
That was quite the read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy#Lobotomy
Salute to you for reading through it all.
I don’t particularly enjoy sharing that horror story, but life is life, and I feel like we must not let that happen again.
Too bad being a compulsive thinker was the opposite reason why her dad got her lobotomized.
Are you… implying something there?
No just speaking the facts, I never met Rose Kennedy in person but her father seemed to think that she was a bit mentally slower than the rest of the Kennedy kids and he thought a lobotomy would help her become more genius like the rest of the Kennedy kids, but obviously it didn’t work.
Yah, that’s the straight story as I understand it.
I’m no expert, but from what I understand, Rosemary was probably just a bit different, like in being somewhat ‘on the spectrum’ or having ADHD, or whatnot. Something which wouldn’t necessarily impede her in life as a fully-realised human being, if her underlying difference could have been understand and respected.
But… of course, that was all pretty much mumbo-jumbo back when she lived. Joe Kennedy might have been a complete bastard, or someone acting in good faith, or some combo of the two. Like I say, I’m no expert!
That’s… something I wasn’t expecting to read. Is there a backstory there?
LOL, no need to read between the lines, I simply have never met Rose Kennedy, just like most people have never met Rose Kennedy.