Normalization has a ton of flaws, but the general positive idea was that support services to meaningfully include disabled people in society were and end in and of themselves. SMI service advocacy had a very different trajectory.
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Absolutely. This is a question that I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about (primarily from a legal lens) and have resigned myself to believe it was in large part about aesthetic perceptions of I/DD vs SMI and racializing personality disorder criteria in the 60s
And from a policy perspective the IMD Exclusion enshrined completely cost incentives for I/DD care in the community vs SMI. But that’s the cart not the theory/academic horse
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