@Garwboy Mars is *checks notes* a liberal hoax!

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@Garwboy Natürlich war es da, aber zu dieser Zeit kamen diese Menschen in den Nischen der Gesellschaft irgend wie immer unter! Nur hat sich der wirtschaftliche Wandel, der absolut auf maximaler Ausbeutung seinen Bestand hat ,keine dieser Nischen mehr vorhanden ist! Menschen dürfen demnach nicht mehr so sein, wie sie sind, werden schon in der Grundschule in die Muster der Zukunft gepresst ,wer da außen vor bleibt. wird letztendlich medizinisch ausgeschaltet!

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Brilliant !

@Garwboy I'm glad it is more 'common' now, despite meeting the occasional neuro-typical person saying it's all a trend.

I was finally diagnosed last year and my daughter this year. My son will be soon too and at least they can grow up in a world less alien and with a better understanding.

Perhaps even a little more compassion and empathy.

#autism #actuallyautistic

@Garwboy People just weren't cognizant of this stuff when I was a kid. Anyone aware of the telltale traits today can read my old report cards and notice some blatantly obvious patterns reported in my behavior.

I didn't suddenly become autistic when I was finally diagnosed at 43. 🙄

@Garwboy They did. And you can bet that they remorselessly bullied anyone exhibiting the more obvious of those traits for being 'weird' or 'different'.

@Garwboy ADD & Autism were added to the DSM (III) in 1980 & neither were commonly diagnosed until the late 80s. So they're right...

@Garwboy Even the doctors cooperate very poorly to diagnose adult people. My wife has had quite the journey to get #ADHD diagnose and any medical treatment. Of course, nobody talked about it in the 80s when she was young. She was just "very distracted" and "all over the place." And if the system helps her, it also helps me.

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Much of this is due to better diagnostic tests and increased awareness, aka, we're smarter now.

Some is also due to conformity pressures created by our culture.

At least in the early 90's, there was also a problem with overdiagnosing kids w/ ADHD.

@Garwboy by the same authors of “the waters are turning the frogs gay” and “kids nowadays… (insert any backwards bullcrap)”

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A decade ago, maybe more, I recall my 70-something dad musing about his brother-in-law David, who was such an "odd duck" with difficulty fitting in.

"You know... the way they describe Autism... that matches Uncle David to a tee. Right down to the last detail."

He was one of my favorite uncles. Funny as hell. Often without trying. Whenever he was in town, Ma would send us to #HarMarMall to just kick around all day, surely 'cuz he drove her nuts.

@Garwboy Just because something is undiagnosed doesn't mean it isn't there.

How many "industrial accidents" were actually suicides, hidden so that the families wouldn't suffer.

Some people have struggled to fit into the society we have created forever. Now we have medical diagnoses. Surely, that is progress.

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I was 12 when the Viking I landed on Mars. I collected all of the newspaper clippings and was super excited to see the first images from the surface of Mars. ❤️

@Garwboy people used to hide any forms of neurodivergent behavior because they viewed it as a personal moral failing.

call it how it really is. we as a society used to act like we didn't exist.

You know a post is doing well when you start getting replies from people earnestly explaining your own point to you, as if you didn't grasp it

@Garwboy Wow. Thank you for that.

I'm gonna steal that for next time someone tells me my daughter being autistic is a "fad diagnosis".

@Garwboy That reminds me of the statement Trump made that went something like this, "Where's climate change? It's freezing cold here!" Somebody retorted, "I ate today. Where's world hunger?"

@Garwboy A great answer :-)

More on the practical side, I am reading Love and Autism by Kay Kerr.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75558872-love-autism

A great book by an autistic person, I think. It is a very good read for everyone. We all meet, one way or the other, people with autism, and having a better grasp what makes them tick is good for all of us when we meet.

@Garwboy @Verso Reminds me of when we say things like, “We never wore helmets riding bikes when I was a kid, and I’m just fine!” Well, sweety, little Billy isn’t here to tell that little anecdote, is he?

@Garwboy oh no.... now they have to start a whole #MarsHoax agenda 😫

@Garwboy In biblical times, I bet some autistic people were considered demon-possessed.

@Garwboy oh my gosh yes. It's as if our existence is a static state at all times. We are learning so much about the natural world. We act as if we have it all figured out. Not even remotely.

Being an adult only recently diagnoses with ADHD, my parents never noticed even though every person they knew who saw me asked if I had ADHD. People are strange sometimes.

@Garwboy Spot on! Asperger's wasn't even a thing yet when I was at school. No wonder it wasn't diagnosed. Of course the name has fallen out of favour now, and rightly, in my view. I'm just "on the spectrum".

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And all of us who *should* have been diagnosed back then in the "good old days" roll their eyes.

@Garwboy ... it's because we were told to stop doing whatever we were doing...

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When I was young, I never saw Stormy Daniels?

@Garwboy in the old days they beat kids that didn’t conform to their idea of behavior. Being frightened into quiet submission was the norm.

@Garwboy JFTR: First photo from the surface dated back from 1976 (Viking probes), so you are adressing only 60+ people?

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15 years or so ago I could quite often be heard to proclaim shit like "its just bad parenting!" or "its a con by big pharma" blah blah blah. God I would go back and slap myself if I could. I now have a diagnosis myself (diag at 42, now 48) and 2 autistic children (one adult, one teen). My grandson also being referred.

I wish it didnt take personal experience to open my eyes. Sadly, many people still touting that BS who never will.

@Garwboy 👏👏
So Smug 💯 🤣🤣
Yet so 🦆ing True 👍
❤️🙏

@Garwboy pix or it didn't happen

If you enjoyed this observation and would like more of the same, as well as an abundance of accessible scientific info about #MentalHealth, you could do worse than checking out my book Psycho-Logical, which offers exactly that, in spades

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Psycho-Logical-Mental-Health-Wrong-Sense/dp/1783352337/ref=sr_1_5?qid=1688997866&refinements=p_27%3ADean+Burnett&s=books&sr=1-5

@Garwboy I love this graph from this WaPo article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/09/22/the-surprising-geography-of-american-left-handedness/

A simple explaination would be that for some reason more left handed people were born. The correct one is that with the removal of the stigma more people admitted they were left handed.

Same today for ADHD, Autism, being Trans, being Homo-/A-/Pan-/Bi-sexual, …

@Garwboy “You also licked lead paint for fun, Steve, now stop drooling on my fucking TPS reports .”

@Garwboy No, we got sent to mental hospital.

Some of us survived it.

@Garwboy And all those left-handed people just came out of nowhere when church stopped abusing kids for using their left hands.

@Garwboy That’s the whole point of human evolution, continual growth! And the definition of reactionary is to deny that evolution. We can’t afford to let the reactionaries win, especially on points of the planet’s survival!

@Garwboy@ohai.social I'm pretty sure I used to fall into that way of thinking, then I realized pretty much exactly what you said. It works in reverse, too. People used to see dragons and faeries all of time, but suddenly stopped. Rather than the dragons and faeries up and leaving for no good reason, it's likely they never existed in the first place.

@Garwboy Seeing Like a DSM.

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I don't understand why do those woke folk insist on increasing mankind's knowledge every generation. Everything we need to know is in the Bible. We can shut down all the science programs and medical schools and just read the Bible.

@Garwboy Was reading that with the Scott Seiss' angry IKEA guy theme. 😂

@Garwboy I'm in my mid 50's. The kid next door was severly autistic. He didn't go to the local public school & his parents didn't take him out & about in our small town. If you didn't live on the block, you probably didn't know he existed. Autistic kids tend to be a lot less isolated & integrated into the community these days.

My husbandhas undiagnosed ADHD., when he was a kid, bouncing off the walls, his parents would give him a paint brush & bucket of water & tell him to go paint the house.

@Garwboy you never saw *gaslighting* either, but it sure as hell has existed since the beginning of humans

@Garwboy My favorite response has been "Oh so Uncle Bob who spent thirty years building a lavishly detailed model railroad in his attic was totally normal then?"

@Garwboy The same with LGBT. They “didn’t know “ any LGBT, but ask them if there was an Aunt Beth or Uncle Gerald who never married and lived with a good friend.

@Garwboy it's weird looking back at my old school reports and seeing the red flags, it's like we saw it, we just thought it was something else.

@Garwboy back then, the words and phrases for these kids were "unteachable", "problem child", "nerd", "freak", and "brain damaged".

@Garwboy Nice!

@Garwboy I want to be able to yell this at people who earnestly say that from time to time... I envy you...

@Garwboy Your comparison makes no sense. Over diagnosis is a problem. It means finite resources to treat people are being diluted.

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In my day they referred to the 'tism as "old souls" or "mature beyond their years"... Go further back, changeling children

@Garwboy I was diagnosed with ADHD in 1964

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We did have it. In a very distorted, sensationalistic, Very Special Episode kind of way. IIRC. So, like a cheesy velvet painting of Mars, and it only got dragged out of the attic once or twice a year. #GenX

@Garwboy "but i LIKE to see the photos from Mars!" 😂 🤣 😂

@Garwboy They used to call us changelings and sometimes made sure we died

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Perfect

@Garwboy I'm not sure to be alarmed by this stuff or think we've turned a stone in acceptance of autistic people (Always seems to be some step where people just claim its a fad or not real)

@Garwboy I want to boost and favorite this toot so much...It breaks Mastodon! Too many people tell me something similar and I roll my eyes into the far flung cosmos. Replying with a simple question, "Never considered why certain people behaved in a particular way Sir/Ma'am?"