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Henry Darger
A Life Shrouded in Secrecy: The Early Years of Henry Darger Henry Joseph Darger Jr., born in Chicago in 1892, led a life marked by profound solitude and hidden depths. His early years were shadowed by loss; the death of his mother shortly after the birth of his sister cast a long pall over his childhood. This initial trauma was compounded by familial instability – his sister was given up for adoption, and his father, though kind-hearte
d, struggled to provide the emotional support young Henry desperately needed. A troubled child prone to fights and internal turmoil, Darger’s difficulties escalated, leading to institutionalization in 1904. First at the Mission of Our Lady of Mercy Catholic orphanage, he was then transferred to the Illinois Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children in Lincoln, Illinois – a place where the diagnosis of “self-abuse” (a Victorian euphemism for ma…