My claim to fame was that I lived in an experimental, world famous house for schizophrenics when I was 19 in 1980. It was called Soteria House and it was controversial because the founders who ran it claimed they could have better recovery results without using medication or hospitals. So they bought an old house in a middle-class neighborhood, staffed it with counselors who had no experience in the mental health field but were tolerant and open-minded and had 6 to 7 clients living there with barely any rules except no violence. Their catch phrase was “normalizing the schizophrenic experience” so crazy behaviour was accepted and the counselors just were very open and friendly and just talked to people like friends normally no matter what was happening.
But it doesn’t have to be schizophrenia or the mental heath field oriented, just something you feel is part of history.
Wow, that’s pretty cool/neat.
I guessed the number of goldfish in a bowl at the library once…
I lived in a very large COOP.
Yeah, I turned down an offer from a serial killer to “Go back to (his) my van and get high.”
This was after he stalked me for over 4 hours at a mall.
I was 13
(But looked quite a bit older) and this was 1998. He was the notorious”Hillside strangler” responsible (with a cousin) of kidnapping/sexual torturing/killing 21 girls they know of, but think many more.
That encounter scared the crap out of me and has always stuck with me, because of the intensity of this creeps actions.
He did most of the things in SoCal, yet it was only in the past 15 years that I read an article on the internet about him, and it said he came up as far as the Concord mall to get his victims-something they never released to the public before.
That was where I encountered him- at that mall.
I was in the news 2x’s once as a child and once for trying to kill myself … Nvrmnd I’ve stated too much …
Yeah, Richard Ramirez, right? I remember all that happening. That’s a pretty creepy story, I see why it’s stuck in your mind.
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