Editing Roseanne Barr (section)

==Early life==
Barr was born in [[Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]], to a [[Jewish]] family. She is the oldest of four children born to Helen (née Davis), a [[bookkeeper]] and cashier, and Jerome Hershel "Jerry" Barr,<ref name="heritage">{{cite web|url=http://www.genealogymagazine.com/roseannebarr.html|title=The Family Tree of Roseanne Barr|publisher=Genealogy Magazine|date=March 16, 2006|access-date=February 16, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110203113806/http://genealogymagazine.com/roseannebarr.html|archive-date=February 3, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref> a salesman.<ref name="jjournal"/> Her father's family were [[Jews|Jewish]] emigrants from the [[History of the Jews in Russia|Russian Empire]], and her maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from [[Austria-Hungary]] and [[History of the Jews in Lithuania|Lithuania]].<ref name="heritage"/> Her paternal grandfather changed his surname from "Borisofsky" to "Barr" upon entering the United States.<ref name="jjournal">{{cite web|last=Tugend|first=Tom|url=https://jewishjournal.com/la_woman/12864/ |title=Roseanne Shares Secrets and Jibes |work=[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles]]|date=March 23, 2006|access-date=June 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401062259/https://jewishjournal.com/la_woman/12864/|url-status=live|archive-date=April 1, 2022}}</ref> Barr's great-grandparents were murdered during [[the Holocaust]].<ref>”Piers Morgan Asks Roseanne Barr ‘What is a Woman?’ And Addresses Controversy,” Youtube</ref>

Her Jewish upbringing was influenced by her devoutly [[Orthodox Jew]]ish maternal grandmother.<ref name="jjournal"/> Barr's parents kept their Jewish heritage secret from their neighbors and were partially involved in [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]].<ref name="jjournal"/> Barr has stated, "Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning I was a Jew; Sunday afternoon, Tuesday afternoon, and Wednesday afternoon we were Mormons."<ref>{{cite book |title=Roseanne: My Life as a Woman |last=Barr |first=Roseanne |year=1989 |publisher=[[Harper (publisher)|Harper & Row]] |isbn=978-0-06-015957-3 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/roseannemylifeas00rose/page/51 51–53] |url=https://archive.org/details/roseannemylifeas00rose/page/51 |access-date=February 16, 2011 }}</ref>

When Barr was three, she was afflicted with [[Bell's palsy]] on the left side of her face. She said, "[so] my mother called in a rabbi to pray for me, but nothing happened. Then my mother got a Mormon preacher, he prayed, and I was miraculously cured". Years later, she learned that Bell's palsy was usually temporary and that the Mormon elder came "exactly at the right time".<ref name="jjournal"/>

Barr has stated that she is on the [[autism spectrum]].<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/S3gMzyaS3Sg Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20191004084613/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3gMzyaS3Sg Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite podcast| url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3gMzyaS3Sg| title= #1359 - Roseanne Barr| website= Joe Rogan Experience| publisher= YouTube| host= Rogan, Joe| date= Oct 2, 2019| time= 40:19| access-date= Oct 2, 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> At six years old, she discovered her first public stage by lecturing at LDS churches around Utah and was elected president of a Mormon youth group.<ref name="jjournal"/>

She attended [[East High School (Utah)|East High School]]. At age 16, however, Barr was hit by a car, and the car's hood ornament impaled her skull; the incident left her with a [[traumatic brain injury]].<ref name="jjournal"/> Her behavior changed so radically that she was institutionalized for eight months at [[Utah State Hospital]].<ref name="PhiladelphiaDailyNews">{{cite journal|last= Gallagher|first=Maria|journal=[[Philadelphia Daily News]]|title=Thin Roseanne? That's no joke Barr's story in 'My Life As a Woman'|date=September 26, 1989}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/1990/12/the-ballad-of-roseanne-and-tom |title=The Ballad of Roseanne and Tom |date=December 15, 1990 |publisher=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Farm]] |accessdate=2023-04-12 |archive-date=August 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827220500/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/1990/12/the-ballad-of-roseanne-and-tom |url-status=live }}</ref> 

In 1970, when Barr was 18, she moved out by informing her parents that she was going to visit a friend in [[Colorado]] for two weeks, and never returned.<ref name="PhiladelphiaDailyNews"/>

The following year, Barr had a baby, whom she put up for adoption. She and her daughter amicably reunited 17 years later.<ref>
{{cite magazine
| last        = Jerome
| first       = Jim
| date        = October 9, 1989
| title       = Roseanne Unchained
| url         = https://people.com/archive/cover-story-roseanne-unchained-vol-32-no-15/
| magazine    = People
| publisher   = Time
| access-date = February 13, 2021
}}</ref>