🧵Tonight’s #Dispatches is heartbreaking and makes me angry. Having been in a psych hospital with a physical disability, there for my mental illness, it was awful enough. To lock away autistic women & girls indefinitely is cruel. 1/3
The friend I made when we were inside, she’s an autistic female. Been in and out for 10+ years. Yes she needed mh treatment but she doesn’t cope in the environment. These places are noisy & chaotic. As this is showing, sexual abuse, assault and rape sadly isn’t uncommon. 2/3
Most women who’ve been inside have their own horror tales. I have mine, it changes your psyche and destroys trust. For these autistic people, they will be traumatised daily with no knowing when they will be in a safe environment everyone deserves. There must be a better way 💔
@threadreaderapp please unroll
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