@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.