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And it's taken you so long to find out you were wrong
"And it's taken you so long to find out you were wrong..." = This was a popular song on the radio in 1978, when I was a 9 year old girl. My innocence was taken away from me 3 years later, in 1981. My first time at Rusk, Texas Mental Hospital Compound was in 1996, when i was 27 years old.
The tie for me between my own personal life and this song is a very clear, strong memory I have of being a little 9 year old girl swimming at the Groves, Texas Public Pool, and the pool employees were playing public radio over the loud speaker while I was swimming. I remember pausing and having a very pleasant moment of really appreciating this song & the fact that I was swimming, back then. It was so important to me that I purchased the 45 record of Baker Street at a record store in Beaumont, Texas when I was about 16-18 years old. It's right here with me. I still have it.
LITTLE DID I KNOW at age 9 that my future was going to be so traumatized by: 1.) having my innocence taken away even before i knew what it was (at age 12 in 1981), and 2.) by being violently handled at Rusk, Texas Mental Hospital Compound in 1996 (at age 27) when they slammed me down on a mattress on the floor, ripped all the layers of my clothes down way farther than necessary, and stabbed me with syringe(s) filled with drugs, and 3.) Later, in a subsequent forced committal, seeing Baker Street in the Rusk TX MHMR compound and realizing it is what my favorite childhood song seems to be about.
Yeah. They ran out the Statute of Limitations, i'm sure - because i've been so distracted by Rusk, Texas MHMR getting AWAY WITH violent administering of medications, that i'd never be able to TELL ANYONE about what happened to me on the back side of the Pea Patch Golf Course at my Frienemies' house. Her relatives didn't give a care about protecting me when I was there in 1981 as a 12 year old girl. Yeah. I guess it's still going to take a little while longer for me to "find out I was wrong" - to be dumb enough to go to that house when I was 12, uninformed, unaware, trusting, and gullible. Yeah: it was ALL MY (legally a minor child in the State of Texas in 1981) FAULT.
I think it's too coincidental for me to see the similarities between these lyrics, and a place that I didn't even know existed at the time that it was so emblazed in my memory & affections as a 9 year old girl.
Is it just supposed to make me have endearing feelings about stupid old Rusk, TX MHMR ? Did the Psychiatrists up there plant these ideas as another way to side bar me off of the FACTS that I was assaulted in Groves, TX at age 12, when my innocence was taken away before I even knew what it was ?
These distractions were not helpful when I was a younger mother, wanting & desperately trying to pass down my Baptist Bible-based faith to my 3 sons.