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Topographic Nap posted:Notable alumni Tiffany Sedaris committed suicide not long ago and in the resulting piece, David Sedaris mentions Elan by name as a factor. Or in his other piece that mentions Tiffany as an adult; IIRC there are only two because being sent to Elsn permanently damaged her relationship with the rest of her family.
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The stuff they did at Elan is also similar to how mentally-challenged kids at special schools were treated. My uncle got shunted to one in the early 60s because his (now we know it is) autism didn't fit my Dick Whitman/Don Draper grandfather's concept of The Perfect White East Coast We Are Totally Not Immigrants and Did I Mention White??? American Family. He never, ever talks about it, but no one in the family ever recovered.
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Feb 12, 2020 11:06
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Tree Bucket posted:What leads a parent to decide this sort of thing is even remotely ok? I can't even get my head around the idea of shipping kids away to boarding school, let alone North Korea mk2. Shame. Guilt. Helplessness.
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