In 1999 my grandmother was admitted to Then Red Rose State Asylum. Her reason? She went insane or at least that what they thought. When she was eight years old my grandmother disappeared from her back yard. They searched and searched for days but she was nowhere to be found. She came back three days later, she was questioned by the police on where she went, was she kidnapped, and what happened that day? She told them stories of where she saw a talking white rabbit wearing a waist coat and how she fell through a hole into Wonderland. She talked about how she had tea with The Mad Hatter, spoke with a disappearing Cheshire Cat, painted roses with Card Soldiers, played croquet with the Red Queen, and grew and shrank when eating and drinking certain foods. Traumatized they all thought, she must of made this up with her imagination to forget about that traumatizing experience. She always stuck with that story, people thought she was just a child with an over active imagination. But as she grew up people started to think she was crazy.
She had a friend named Lewis Carroll he was fantasized with her story and wrote a book about her called Alice in Wonderland. He was among the few people who believed her. When I was three years old my grandmother tried to go back to Wonderland.......with me. She grabbed my three year old hand and pulled me into the forest. I started crying for mommy after a while. She kept on muttering "where is the hole? Now I know it was around here somewhere" my parents and the police eventually found us. The police took my grandmother into custody but my parents didn't press charges. Instead they admitted her to The Red Rose State Asylum. Doctors thought she has a mental illness but didn't know what it was. They named it after the book Lewis wrote for her; Alice In Wonderland Syndrome. The Asylum asked for her name and her reason for being admitted, her name was Alice and she fell into Wonderland
