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You ever read some shit so evil it kinda pumps the brakes on the rest of your day?
Are you fucking ready for this knowledge? To my exasperated followers, give me a break, I haven’t given a good historical rant about her in a few months. Also who the hell uses the word ‘vegetable’ anymore? Yeah, I’m taking over this post. Here we go:
Rosemary Kennedy was JFK’s sister. Joseph Kennedy manipulated his children for years, always wanting them to be the picturesque family to help gain political traction. “Oh, they’re so pretty, oh, they’re so well-behaved, oh, they’re the definition of family ideals” that stuff.
For the most part, the rest of the Kennedy children obliged.
Rosemary?
Rosemary left her boarding school to go on dates.
…Yeah. Yeah, that was it. Rosemary left the boarding school and went on dates. That was her “rebellious nature”. She was a tad bit clumsy, she might have actually had borderline Asperger’s due to her inability to pick up on social cues, and she left her boarding school to go on dates with boys. That last one pissed off Joseph so that, by the time Rosemary was twenty-three (the above cruce post makes it seem like she was a teenager but no, she was twenty-three, I’m not saying this to diminish anything, I’m saying that she was a fully-grown adult and still under her father’s manipulations), he took her to Walter Jackson Freeman without consulting his wife. If you haven’t been privy to any of my rants, Walter Jackson Freeman was a man who used icepicks and knives to cut into people’s heads, chopping off pieces of their brain, a process known as the frontal lobotomy. Icepicks. The things you used to chip ice. Icepicks. Although I’m pretty sure he used a kitchen knife on Rosemary because, you know, that’s so much better. Anywho, not only was she forced into the operation, not only was she forced to sing God Bless America, but she was forced to say The Lord’s Prayer. The. Lord’s. Prayer. Until. She. Couldn’t. Because. They. Paralyzed. Her.
Joseph was so disgusted by her new state (you know, because she was paralyzed) that he sent her to a far-off asylum where she remained for decades. When JFK ran for his presidency and was asked about the whereabouts of his sister, he said that she was away, teaching and/or studying.
Nobody visited Rosemary for decades.
Nobody visited Rosemary for decades.
When her mother finally visited, Rosemary lunged at her in anger and had to be sedated. Her mother’s response? You ready for this? I mean, seriously, are you ready? Like I know what you’re thinking: “Mate, you just went into a rant by memory (yeah, I’m typing this all by memory) about a woman whose brain was hacked up using a butter knife so that she wouldn’t embarrass her family during their political campaign, only for that woman to become paralyzed and institutionalized without visitors for decades, what the fuck can be worse than that?” Seriously though, brace yourselves.
When Rose Kennedy saw her daughter for the first time in decades (after Rosemary was institutionalized as a result of Joseph’s severe medical abuse), when Rose saw her…her first concern…was that she was fat.
Like I said, I wrote this all from memory, but have a bundle of sources confirming everything:
http://people.com/books/untold-story-of-rosemary-kennedy-and-her-disastrous-lobotomy/
The family that thought it was more important to get a story straight than go back and get a woman out of a car in a lake AND the family that thought it was better to work with the Russians and the media to sabotage Reagan than lose to him again in an election
@patron-saint-of-smart-asses it got fucking worse.
She also may have been sexually abused according to this book I have, and the lobotomy was to prevent her from ruining Joseph’s reputation.
AND the original source of a lot her her mental problems pre-lobotomy may have been the result of a dumbass nurse who physically forced her head to stay in the birth canal, depriving her of oxygen, because she didn’t want to deliver the baby without a physician on hand. This poor girl was was screwed up from the beginning.
The Kennedys are in Hell confirmed
@libertarirynn was that sort of thing (the Birth thing) common back then?
also,
Speaking As An Atheist:
Demons are real.
I don’t believe it was common but I’m not 100% on that.
Want to know another Kennedy “fun“ fact? Joe Jr. the eldest son praised Hitler’s forced sterilization policy “as a great thing” that “will do away with many of the disgusting specimens of men.” I could seriously go on and on about how awful these people were. Although I will say that in some ways Rosemary got the last laugh, because she did eventually learn to walk and talk somewhat again and lived into her 80s. In fact in 2005 she became the *first* Kennedy child to die of natural causes.
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