I’ve heard and read a lot of accounts lately from parents and caregivers about other adults either giving unsolicited parenting advice or making crass comments about special needs kids when they are having a difficult time in public.

The August 13, 2011 Nickelodeon ("Nick") episode of the popular adolescent show, iCarly, is entitled "I Lost My Mind". The character Sam kisses a boy she hates, so she assumes she has "lost her mind" and checks herself into a "mental hospital." While there, she "finger-paints." Her friends try to "break her out." The promo suggests their plan is "crazy" and "insane."  

In 1977, a Northern California mother named Eve decided she’d had enough.  Eve had raised a child diagnosed schizophrenic and had endured the prevailing thinking by the medical community and society at-large at the time; that her son’s condition was her fault.  That something in how she raised him caused his psychotic break with reality during his teens.  Trying to get appointments with the local mental health facility administrators was frustrating, and the results of meetings she could get just made her angry.   So on October 22^nd, Eve and a