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December 08, 2004

Beyond Human

A single word was stamped in bold, black ink across the top of the file. To the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Freddie Boyce was just another one of the "morons" warehoused at the Walter E. Fernald State School for the Feeble-minded, located just outside Boston in Waltham, Mass.

Freddie arrived at Fernald in 1949 after the last of his foster parents died. He never knew his father and barely knew his mother. After taking a primitive version of an IQ test, he was determined to be mentally insufficient and labeled a moron – just one of many scientific terms given to kids with slight mental capacities. He was given a school uniform and put to work. It didn't matter that Freddie would be considered normal by today's standards. He was simply poor, uneducated and had nowhere else to go. So they locked him away.

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Posted by thinkingmachine at December 8, 2004 07:05 PM

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