Horny History: The Fernald State School

It’s real history, as told by some horny dude in my inbox and me.

This post contains sensitive content on the abuse of disabled children and orphans. Reader discretion is advised.

The Walter E. Fernald State School sits empty now in Waltham Massachusetts. In its halls thousands of people were once unwillingly held. These people were deemed feeble minded by the state and forced to be imprisoned here. The majority of the people held here were adolescent boys. Originally a school to teach skills to the disabled, its focus changed to eugenics after new leadership. Eugenicists wanted the disabled removed from society so that they didn’t breed.

The school opened in 1848 and didn’t close its doors completely until 2014. Although there’s no clear start and end date to the abusive behavior I’m about to tell you about, the time period is approximately 1900-1970.

The school was underfunded and understaffed. One person might be staffed with overseeing two wards. Although some of the children were orphans the state didn’t know what to do with, many were intellectually or physically disabled and would have required special care. With no one to care for them, some of the more severe cases roamed the school nude or in clothes coated in urine and feces.

Americans at the time were swept up in the idea of eugenics and the perfect family. Parents embarrassed of their disabled child might hide them away at a school like Fernald. Out of sight, out of mind. Not the case though for our next horny man “Rugged.” As much as he wanted me to get the school out of my mind, I just couldn’t.

The Fernald school children were severely abused at the hands of the state. These horrid examples, are only a fraction of the punishments and torture these children endured. It was well known the conditions at the school. The police themselves had tasked the children with making stationary for them to use. Enough people raised their voices against the school in the 1970s, resulting in a class action lawsuit finally forcing the school to take care of its residents.

In 1993, government documents on the radioactive oatmeal were declassified. It was brought to public attention that Quaker Oats had paid MIT and Harvard to conduct research on the children at the Fernald school. Oats with radioactive iron and milk with radioactive calcium were given to children as well as injections of radioactive tracers. The whole thing was approved by the Atomic Energy Commission.

If you want to learn more about the Fernald school I suggest The State Boys Rebellion by Michal D’Antonio and Georgia Marie’s episode on the topic on Mysteries and Histories.

I’ve touched on Eugenics a lot, although since it was before I started my Substack, only some of them are on here. I’ll be adding them to here shortly. For now, I suggest this eugenics Horny History on Carrie Buck.

Horny History: Carrie Buck

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