If Marie has a mental/learning disability, how was she not sent to a mental institution or not placed under guardianship custody of her family? How was she able to care for herself and live independently without being homeless prior to meeting papachu?

The general consensus on this subreddit is that marie (mamachu) is "special needs" and has very low intelligence to where she has an intellectual disability. But if that were the case, how was Marie able to avoid being sent to a mental institution or avoid being sterilized as part of the US government's eugenics program given the lack of due process and lack of respect for human rights? Especially giver her very visible "lights are on, nobody's home" look on her face. [https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/543.html#:\~:text=Tribes%20%2D%20Native%20Voices,of%20women%20younger%20than%2021](https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/543.html#:~:text=Tribes%20%2D%20Native%20Voices,of%20women%20younger%20than%2021) [https://www.aclu-nm.org/en/news/ice-cruelty-what-will-americans-do#:\~:text=Between%20the%201930s%20and%201970s,women%20occurred%20in%20New%20Mexico](https://www.aclu-nm.org/en/news/ice-cruelty-what-will-americans-do#:~:text=Between%20the%201930s%20and%201970s,women%20occurred%20in%20New%20Mexico) From 1973 to 1976, the US government's Indian Health Service (IHS) carried out a sterilization program that targeted blacks, mentally disabled, latinos, and indigenous indians (the current appropriate term for Native Americans) of child-bearing age, particularly women under the age of 21. Between 1973 and 1976, over 3406 women of indigenous indian heritage were sterilized without informed consent according to the US GAO office. Many of these sterilizations occurred in New Mexico, the birthplace of the Slydells. If Marie, Tophia, and brotherchu were alive during the 60s and 70s, they would have tragically been victims of these immoral and inhumane programs. Did Marie spend her childhood and teens in a rural "middle of nowhere" area? Or was she living in an urban or suburban area? Given how Marie was of child-bearing age and her visible "lights are on, nobody's home" fetal alcohol syndrome appearance when these inhumane programs were occurring in her home state of New Mexico, it makes me ask how Marie was able to avoid this terrible fate given how Marie presumably went to a public school and school officials were required to notify mentally disabled students to mental institutions as it was significantly easier to have someone locked up in a mental institution without due process as all they had to do was to have a doctor testify in court that the person was incompetent and unable to live a normal life. As seen in the Willowbrook state hospital, where those with mental disabilities were just thrown in there and locked away. Given how Marie came from a Mexican Indian and Spanish family, it is safe to say that her parents would most likely have very little to no say in whether or not she was to be locked up given the segregation during that time period. Question is, was Marie always this mentally "slow"? Did she always have that "lights are on, nobody's home" facial appearance? Was she low functioning even in her teens and 20s before meeting papachu? Moreover, why didn't Marie's parents or family attempt to scare away papachu or at least try to get Marie away from papachu? No way a parent or family member would allow their mentally disabled family member stay with an abusive schizo scammer like papachu. If Marie truly had a low intellectual disability, why did her parents allow her to leave her childhood home and live independently partying at nightclubs doing drugs? No parent of an adult child with a mental disability would allow their adult child to go party at nightclubs and live on their own without a proper support system. Why didn't they sign her up for conservatorship/guardianship and keep her at home? If I recall correctly, I read on this sub that she rented an apartment room from an old couple, and she somehow managed to spend all of her 20s to not end up homeless and earn enough money to afford drugs, drinks at the nightclubs, and rent. So you kinda have to give Marie credit for managing to move away from her parent's home and not end up dead or trafficked by a human trafficker. In my opinion, Marie doesn't have an intellectual disability and that her only mental disability is probably dementia or alzheimer's as a result of old age or drug abuse from her 20s. What do y'all think? Please leave your true and honest opinions?