More On My Case.

And like I said, unequal treatment has been a problem all my life. And in my case it was obviously always people's misinformation or preexisting prejudices about the mentally ill. And intellectually disabled, it seems. Around 1988 or 9 at Oakwood hospital people started telling me I looked intellectually disabled to them. And then wintertime 2001 in downtown Dearborn the Dearborn police told me that too. When I told them I wasn't aware that I was, they told me I could be and just not know it. They really said that, I'll have to get the records of that, along with the records from Sinai-Grace hospital in 2004. Like I keep telling people, much of the abuse I received is recorded, even though sadly the abuse mentally ill and handicapped people suffer often is not. But there is a serious stigma surrounding both groups, the mentally ill and the intellectually disabled. And the mentally ill are associated with violence and crime, which people have always claimed justifies their unequal treatment and the violation of their rights. Also historically people with an intellectual disability faced the same thing. I was watching a film strip in one of my classes at Henry Ford Community College. I think it was actually my 2000 philosophy of religion class. And it showed an old public service announcement about the intellectually disabled. It was actually a warning about them. It showed a man who was intellectually disabled creeping up to a doorway with a knife. I thought it was sad too, because it looked like the extra they had play that part was really intellectually disabled. Actually, like the mentally ill, the intellectually disabled are more prone to crime, and sometimes specifically violent crime. I looked it up recently, and it's about the same rate. But most of them aren't that way, and the issue is very complex. I also read a while ago that police and others like that need to be given special training for dealing with both groups. Also, it's important to remember about the mentally ill that there is treatment and medicine for them. And promoting things like stigma and discrimination just makes it less likely they will receive treatment. And I also said online a while back that mentally ill people who have never committed a crime are actually less likely to do that. I am sure similar things are true about the intellectually disabled.

They don't talk much about social issues like crime with the intellectually disabled. But they often say things like most of the people in prison have an intellectual disability. But some say that is only because they are too cooperative with police when they get arrested. There was some talk around the early millennia about the intellectually disabled and how some doctors and therapists even wonder about issues involving them becoming parents. This was around the time they started talking about the Marie Noe case. She was diagnosed with several mental health issues and she was found to have an IQ of 78 which is considered a borderline intellectual disability. She allegedly killed eight of her children in Philadelphia between 1949 and 1968 and she was severely abused as a child herself. Finally in 1999 she pleaded guilty to all the murders and was given probation. The issue of the intellectually disabled becoming parents is complicated because some of them often need help with that along with help functioning in general. Like I've been telling people for a while now, I think things like monitoring their home life and even allowing them to have children can be built into the system that is there to help them. The intellectually disabled, like any group, is assumed to have the same rights as anyone until the opposite is proven, which is very important. And marriage and other things related to a social life are very important. But in the case of starting a family you also have to consider the rights of the children involved.

Many people probably aren't even aware of the potential for crime and violence by the intellectually disabled, which of course is generally low as I said. I looked it up recently and was surprised to find the rate is about the same as the mentally ill. Though like I said, for both groups most people are not like that. Also the way people talk about the mentally ill is very different. People often talk about them with fear and apprehension, which is supposedly all right in our culture. Even when news reporters report on a story involving a crime of a mentally ill person, they right away assume his illness must have led to it. And then their report of the crime is always filled with slurs and epithets against that illness. This crazy walked into a story and acting insane, he went looney and robbed the store. Almost every reporter seems to do that I've noticed. They would never get away with that with any other disability or really any other group. Also the mentally ill are the only group that people think locking away is still an option. My 1995 psychology teacher thought that, and seemed to hate mentally ill people too. And when people talk of that they often become very cold and callous. Governor Engler closed the mental hospitals in Michigan and let them all out? Well round them up and put them all back in, people say. Or like my Uncle Al they say stick them wherever you can find room. It doesn't matter if it's a nice place or bad. Kind of like Ebenezer Scrooge or like they were trying to do with me. I also learned around 1995 there was deinstitutionalization period for the intellectually disabled, right after the one for the mentally ill IIRC. But no one ever talks of them in that way. But they face many similar problems, and often their worst abuse comes from police and the justice system too. Particularly even in the police precinct near me, one man online was telling me or told me he thought was the case.

But anyways, I think we need some major change for both groups. Positive change and just commonsense reform of course. And a lot of it should surround my case. My case seems to involve a lot of issues surrounding all those subject matters. Mental illness, handicapped people, courts and the police, and how medicine is used to harm and exploit them. And the most disturbing thing is that it was done all in secret with me. Which like I keep saying makes you wonder what else they did that way. Like I said, I am going to spend the rest of my life exposing it, exposing all the people involved and seeing they are held accountable.