@sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Autism@lemmy.world • 26 days agoAre there more autistic people now?www.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square13arrow-up126cross-posted to: neurodivergence@beehaw.org
arrow-up126external-linkAre there more autistic people now?www.bbc.com@sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Autism@lemmy.world • 26 days agomessage-square13cross-posted to: neurodivergence@beehaw.org
minus-square@Carmakazi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink8•26 days agoThe numbers are probably similar but back then more of them were abused into either permanent masking or madness/suicide. Not exactly an accepting world 80 years ago.
minus-square@Taleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglish6•edit-226 days agoMy grandfather died at 60 in 1990. Everyone who ever met the guy universally agrees he was autistic as fuck. But he was employable, had a wife, six kids and wasn’t uncommunicative so at the time he wasn’t considered as such at all
The numbers are probably similar but back then more of them were abused into either permanent masking or madness/suicide. Not exactly an accepting world 80 years ago.
My grandfather died at 60 in 1990. Everyone who ever met the guy universally agrees he was autistic as fuck.
But he was employable, had a wife, six kids and wasn’t uncommunicative so at the time he wasn’t considered as such at all