No, she doesn’t realize it. She thinks this place is a gulag. She tells me so all the time.
“Mum, I’m HUNGRY!”
“It’s an hour until feeding time.”
“I’m starving! This place is a gulag!”
“Itty Bitty, get down!”
“Don’t want to!”
“Get down now!”
“I never get to do anything! This place is a gulag!”
I’ve tried to explain to her that it is not, in fact, a horrendous Soviet prison, but she insists that it is.