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Institutionalised 3: A Continuum of Discipline or Schooled, spanked and caned in a straitjacket; the torment of the tawse, the sting of the strap and the correction of the cane bent across the disciplinarian nurse’s knee

ByGarth.P Toyntanen

Half their number were saddled with the additional encumberment of a plastic card hung around the neck on a thin, silvery chain-link lanyard spelling out the label ‘STUTTERER’ in glossy raised gold capitals. Not, ironically this violet eyed specimen, despite having developed a most debilitating nervous stammer even before beginning her tenure in this place. They were berated for the tiniest slip, while she would simply be told to take her time, to avoid long words and those she knew she couldn’t’ pronounce. Her stammer would be met with a condescending smile and the patient, resigned advice to try again avoiding this word or that or to find a shorter, simpler term – it was an insidious process she worried was making her worse not better. A member of that subgroup marked out by one of those placards balanced across the bustline of her gymslip would receive a stroke or two of the cane, strap or tawse across an outstretched palm for something as innocuous as a repeated word or simple stumble.

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Publication Date
Sep 29, 2011
Language
English
Category
Fiction
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All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
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By (author): Garth.P Toyntanen

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