The Institute for the Extraordinarily Able was created in 1853 when children of the Unusual were born more frequently, and generations were skipped less often. While even then there weren't very many, there were too many to survive without some sort of safe haven form the world that was against accepting them. Whether you could see their abilities or not. Some parents were the children of skipped generations, and they too may have been the child of a skipped generation, but some thought these traits stopped once a few generations were skipped, they didn't.
Things were different before the 1980s, people were less accepting of anything different, even if the thing that was different was your child. Many of the Unusual were shipped off to the Institute by their parents, orphans, students, and loners for the rest of their lives. Some didn't even leave the Institute, the ones that feared the outside world stayed behind and worked. Whether it was as a secretary, a janitor, a counselor, maybe even a teacher! But many felt shame, they left and sold themselves as some form of amusement just to not even make enough money to get by or they did the unthinkable and and took their own lives. Some were even murdered for the "scientific purposes".
Most families in the 21st century are excepting of their children and the abilities that they have been born with, even if they don't have them themselves. Some attend the Institute and live on the island with their families and some aren't accepted still. Those children make up the majority of the students that live in the dormitories. That's quite the improvement from the last 160 or so years, but one thing still remains the same. The Unusual are not accepted in this world, and they must be protected and hidden at all costs.
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The Institute for The Extraordinarily Able
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