Anne McDonald
I am a survivor.
The tribe rejected me soon after I was born and I was put into St. Nicholas Hospital , an institution for people with severe disabilities. I lived there until I was eighteen. Then I won a court case and was able to leave.
I have worked all my life trying to remember what happened in St. Nicholas in sufficient detail to convince others of its truth, and trying to ensure that it never happens to anybody else.
If you're interested in my
other work, check these out....
If you want to know about my years in hell, try St.
Nicholas Hospital.
If you want to know what it did to me, read My
Frankenstein.
If you want to know what I think of euthanasia, read this.
If you want to know more about my story, read the book
I wrote
with
Rosemary Crossley - Annie's Coming Out, Penguin Books.
It's out of print, but second-hand copies are available on Amazon
and Alibris.
If you want to know how I got out, look up Facilitated
Communication Training.
If you want to know why communication is so important, read The
Right to Communicate.
And read about the
people who are trying to stop it.
And there's my work on The
Terrible Triple C, another one of
the ways in which professionals bastardize people with disability.
If you want to know how I enjoy myself, watch this.
Here are a few links
to friends.
I also work for DEAL and CAUS, and speak on issues of
disability. For my most recent articles on people without
speech being bastardized see No Angel
and Buried
Alive.
If you want to contribute something yourself, give some
money to DEAL; they're working to see
that nobody is left without a voice.
Back to the home page and start
again...
Warning: there is quite a bit of overlap between these
articles. When you take as long as I do to spell a sentence you
use it as often as you can, and the hell with repetition.
