My speculation is that now people know and give a shit.I didn’t even read that nonsense. People have smoked ‘Dope’ for generations. My speculation for the increase in Autism has always been all the genetically modified food and/or pesticides. We put a lot of poison in our bodies.
I'm a diagnosed autistic person. Am much much better at "disguising" it as an adult, in part because it was never diagnosed as a child. I was just a weird kid from a traditional/conservative family and environment that just wasn't going to put up with my shit. There was no labeling, no identity group, no buzzwords, coddling, no consideration of my needs or preferences. It was fit in or fuck off.
The idea of not having to do something in school because it was distressing to me? Ridiculous, never happened a single time. I was just forced to do a shitload of things that I was highly resistant to, which has resulted in me being a lot better at managing discomfort in everyday life as an adult.
As a kid today, I'd have been identified early on, and my whole life would have been much different from there.
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