Real Disappointment Rooms

I ve just tonight run across the term disappointment room in a short story.

Real disappointment rooms. When you were younger you probably thought you d have all the time in the world to do the things you wanted to do by the time you became an adult. Disappointment rooms though the term seems specific to north america were small spaces generally located on the top floor of a house where family members usually children suffering from. Caruso s disturbia film revolves around couple dana kate beckinsale and david and their 5 year old son. The effect that money has on people can be a real disappointment.

As far as i can tell this isn t even some kind of long standing myth of victorian barbarity i can t find any references earlier than that hgtv episode in the 00s. It was at the front of the house and had two windows so it wasn t as closed off from the world but it did have a metal floor that the woman found odd. These attics basements or purposefully modified rooms were used to keep physically or mentally handicapped family members out. When dana discovers a small mysterious locked room in the attic things begin to go bump in the night and dana begins to doubt her sanity.

There is a lot riding on the opening of d j. The term itself was regional however the existence and practice of these rooms is anything but. One famous and well documented case is that of rosemary kennedy. It is the first release for relativity after a rather tough financial year.

There is no evidence for disappointment rooms or disappointments rooms like the title of the movie that i m aware of. A disappointment room being a purpose built room to hide or isolate a child or family member with disfigurement or disabilities that made them unfit for socialization. Wiki has no entry and the few hits i. While a report suggests.

The disappointments room true story reveals that in the late 1800s prominent judge job smith carpenter 1866 1906 and his wife frances ellen carpenter 1871 1918 had owned the real home. The real story is that a rhode island woman discovered a separated room on her third floor that wasn t locked but did have a dead bolt on the outside. In the story it was a small room seemingly purpose built or modified in which a family might hide a physically or mentally handicapped child back in the days when such a thing was felt to be shameful. For some it can change them for the better for others it s just the worst.

The street that runs beside the home carpenter court was named after the judge. Was such a thing actually common or widespread does anyone know.