Terrifying History on Instagram: "During the 1960s, children with learning disabilities or mental health conditions were routinely placed in long-term psychiatric institutions—often grim facilities referred to as asylums or state hospitals. These warehouses of human suffering operated under a system that prioritized containment over care, where diagnoses like autism, Down syndrome, or childhood schizophrenia could condemn a child to lifelong institutionalization. Behind locked doors, children en