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Ruth Johnston

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225 total appearances

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Ruth Johnston: Autism and Schizophrenia: A Mother's Fight for Change

Right.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Ruth Johnston: Autism and Schizophrenia: A Mother's Fight for Change

Right.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Ruth Johnston: Autism and Schizophrenia: A Mother's Fight for Change

Because that's when you hear about it. And you know why? It's because the law is often set up so that you cannot force them into treatment until you're in criminal court. And therefore, it's like you're trolling them. You're just waiting and watching them get worse and worse and worse and worse and worse. If we could treat them sooner, you wouldn't hear about those things.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Ruth Johnston: Autism and Schizophrenia: A Mother's Fight for Change

Because that's when you hear about it. And you know why? It's because the law is often set up so that you cannot force them into treatment until you're in criminal court. And therefore, it's like you're trolling them. You're just waiting and watching them get worse and worse and worse and worse and worse. If we could treat them sooner, you wouldn't hear about those things.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Ruth Johnston: Autism and Schizophrenia: A Mother's Fight for Change

Because that's when you hear about it. And you know why? It's because the law is often set up so that you cannot force them into treatment until you're in criminal court. And therefore, it's like you're trolling them. You're just waiting and watching them get worse and worse and worse and worse and worse. If we could treat them sooner, you wouldn't hear about those things.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Ruth Johnston: Autism and Schizophrenia: A Mother's Fight for Change

Okay, common sense is assisted outpatient. It's basically, it's where you say, we're going to stop giving all the civil rights to the disease and leaving the person imprisoned in this brain illness that prevents them from saying, I need help. The help is there. AOT uses the services that are all there. What AOT does, it's like the law is set up.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Ruth Johnston: Autism and Schizophrenia: A Mother's Fight for Change

Okay, common sense is assisted outpatient. It's basically, it's where you say, we're going to stop giving all the civil rights to the disease and leaving the person imprisoned in this brain illness that prevents them from saying, I need help. The help is there. AOT uses the services that are all there. What AOT does, it's like the law is set up.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Ruth Johnston: Autism and Schizophrenia: A Mother's Fight for Change

Okay, common sense is assisted outpatient. It's basically, it's where you say, we're going to stop giving all the civil rights to the disease and leaving the person imprisoned in this brain illness that prevents them from saying, I need help. The help is there. AOT uses the services that are all there. What AOT does, it's like the law is set up.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Ruth Johnston: Autism and Schizophrenia: A Mother's Fight for Change

If you were in a terrible car accident, okay, and there's a couple cars and there's people being hauled out of a terrible situation, the ambulances pull up and they say with a loudspeaker, ambulance over here, folks, come on. That's what it's like. Some people could do that, but a number of them are, I don't know, unconscious, legs broken.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Ruth Johnston: Autism and Schizophrenia: A Mother's Fight for Change

If you were in a terrible car accident, okay, and there's a couple cars and there's people being hauled out of a terrible situation, the ambulances pull up and they say with a loudspeaker, ambulance over here, folks, come on. That's what it's like. Some people could do that, but a number of them are, I don't know, unconscious, legs broken.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Ruth Johnston: Autism and Schizophrenia: A Mother's Fight for Change

If you were in a terrible car accident, okay, and there's a couple cars and there's people being hauled out of a terrible situation, the ambulances pull up and they say with a loudspeaker, ambulance over here, folks, come on. That's what it's like. Some people could do that, but a number of them are, I don't know, unconscious, legs broken.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Ruth Johnston: Autism and Schizophrenia: A Mother's Fight for Change

AOT is the stretcher where you go to where they are and you put them on the stretcher, even if they're not able to say, yes, please. You put them on the stretcher because you can see they're unconscious and you take them in the ambulance. That's what they're not doing.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Ruth Johnston: Autism and Schizophrenia: A Mother's Fight for Change

AOT is the stretcher where you go to where they are and you put them on the stretcher, even if they're not able to say, yes, please. You put them on the stretcher because you can see they're unconscious and you take them in the ambulance. That's what they're not doing.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Ruth Johnston: Autism and Schizophrenia: A Mother's Fight for Change

AOT is the stretcher where you go to where they are and you put them on the stretcher, even if they're not able to say, yes, please. You put them on the stretcher because you can see they're unconscious and you take them in the ambulance. That's what they're not doing.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Ruth Johnston: Autism and Schizophrenia: A Mother's Fight for Change

Again, back in the 60s, before there was as much known about brain illness, there was an idea that people were just manifesting the problems their mother gave them. And it seemed really unfair. And the idea that the medicines would make you just sit and drool. And so basically, legally, making someone take medicine is the equivalent of incarceration. And they use the same due process things.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Ruth Johnston: Autism and Schizophrenia: A Mother's Fight for Change

Again, back in the 60s, before there was as much known about brain illness, there was an idea that people were just manifesting the problems their mother gave them. And it seemed really unfair. And the idea that the medicines would make you just sit and drool. And so basically, legally, making someone take medicine is the equivalent of incarceration. And they use the same due process things.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Ruth Johnston: Autism and Schizophrenia: A Mother's Fight for Change

Again, back in the 60s, before there was as much known about brain illness, there was an idea that people were just manifesting the problems their mother gave them. And it seemed really unfair. And the idea that the medicines would make you just sit and drool. And so basically, legally, making someone take medicine is the equivalent of incarceration. And they use the same due process things.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Ruth Johnston: Autism and Schizophrenia: A Mother's Fight for Change

AOT creates a due process in the civil court that can accept evidence like he's talking to angels and so you can actually get help. Because the way it's set up now, I think it made sense to them in the 60s, but we know a lot more now and it no longer makes sense.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Ruth Johnston: Autism and Schizophrenia: A Mother's Fight for Change

AOT creates a due process in the civil court that can accept evidence like he's talking to angels and so you can actually get help. Because the way it's set up now, I think it made sense to them in the 60s, but we know a lot more now and it no longer makes sense.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Ruth Johnston: Autism and Schizophrenia: A Mother's Fight for Change

AOT creates a due process in the civil court that can accept evidence like he's talking to angels and so you can actually get help. Because the way it's set up now, I think it made sense to them in the 60s, but we know a lot more now and it no longer makes sense.