InsaneJournal

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”

-Alice in Wonderland

When Alice Liddell or Wendy Darling came home to their parents, neither had known quite what to say to them to explain their days of absence. The children who spent their time in worlds of fantasy with the fairies, talking cats, or wolves that follow you on your way to Grandmother's house were always considered a bit off. After their initial disappearances, they spent their lives paranoid of what could fly through the windows, come out of the wardrobe in the empty room, or appear in a flash of red light, donning a pair of mock ruby slippers and wicked green smile.

They became, as many people told their parents, completely mad.

So what was a caring father or mother to do when a man came to them, spilling of a place where they wouldn't have to pay for their children to be cared for, where the government would fund them while still giving the top of the line treatment, care, and education? All the tiny girls and boys who babbled about places like "Oz," or "Wonderland," or the ever popular "Neverland" were worried for, and eventually, shipped off to the asylum, where their parents could only hope that their prayers for a normal son or daughter would finally be answered.