I don't have any article to reference this. It's something a friend of mine heard on the radio (which I been thinking all along)
Apparently, experts are now officially saying that NZ author Janet Frame. ("An Angel at My Table") was autistic after all.
She was extremely shy.
I know at one time they wanted to perform a lobotomy on her.
She was extremely shy.
I know at one time they wanted to perform a lobotomy on her.
Damn! That is pretty harsh. Threatened with that I would be become a used car salesman. See socialising, talking, persuading...........Please don't take part of my brain! LOL.
Seriously though it is a shame how misdiagnosed autistic people were even in recent times.
I could say something about used car salesmen and lobotomies but as some of them are decent people, I probably shouldn't.
I also remember hearing that she lost a teaching job - because she did not wish to join other staff in the tea room for morning tea. etc.
She needed time alone to recoup instead.
Who is, or was Janet Frame?
Who is, or was Janet Frame?
She was an author from New Zealand, whose most famous book "An Angel at my Table" -- which was her autobiography -- was also made into a movie.
At one point, because she was painfully shy, she was mis-diagnosed with schizophrenia and sent to live in a mental institution, where she received shock therapy and -- true as the above -- nearly ended up with a lobotomy.
She's also one of the few writers whose first novel was accepted by the first publisher she sent it to!