Real Disappointment Rooms

The effect that money has on people can be a real disappointment.

Real disappointment rooms.

There is no evidence for disappointment rooms or disappointments rooms like the title of the movie that i m aware of. One famous and well documented case is that of rosemary kennedy. The street that runs beside the home carpenter court was named after the judge. 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.

I ve just tonight run across the term disappointment room in a short story. 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. There is a lot riding on the opening of d j. 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.

Was such a thing actually common or widespread does anyone know. 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. 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. 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.

The disappointments room is a retelling of that true story. Disappointment rooms were sad facts of life in the antebellum south. Caruso s disturbia film revolves around couple dana kate beckinsale and david and their 5 year old son. The term itself was regional however the existence and practice of these rooms is anything but.

For some it can change them for the better for others it s just the worst. Caruso 39 s the disappointments room this weekend. Wiki has no entry and the few hits i. 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.

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. These attics basements or purposefully modified rooms were used to keep physically or mentally handicapped family members out.