why did autism not exist until the 1970s?
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>>18718754cause autism was lumped in with the more severely mentally disabled. We have more nuance today in our diagnoses.
>>18718754autistic children prior to the modern age were actually just killed off by their mothers for having tard crashouts before they turned 10 and their deaths were just written off as adolescent mortality related to their immune system or their humors being misaligned or whatever
>>18718754That is about the same time that modern theory of mind began
>>18718871>We have more nuance today in our diagnoses.By lumping in normal people with autism, sure. At this rate anyone with a hobby will be labeled autistic.
>>18718889What is "normal people"?
>>18718891Are you going to do the thing where you abuse vague definition boundaries to deny the existence of norms? Not very original.
>>18718754Level Is led mostly normal lives but were probably considered weird/quirky, Level IIs were either institutionalized or worked more menial jobs (probably depends on parenting and environment), Level IIIs were all institutionalized and inevitably died of Hepatitis at an asylum in their 30s or 40s
>>18718754Because Autism was invented by leftist psychologists, who lumped it together with a lot of different and diverse personality traits and actual disorders. A legally retarded manchild in his 40, who screams every sentence, watches cartoons all day and is completely incapable of the simplest things a Human needs to do to survive is an Autist, just as much as an introverted genius, who doesn't like to be put into the spotlight in public or has to interact with strangers at social conventions.This is actually insane. Autism really is a useless category.
>>187187541943 was not in the 1970s.
>>18719155>Autism was invented by leftist psychologistsPsychologists don't make diagnoses retard.
>>18719167>I think he might be autistic!
>>18719173this but unironically
>>18718795TACTICAL?!
>>18718796I recognize him at this junction of junctions of all junctions
did autism have any practical use in hunter gatherer societies or is it all bullshit
>>18718795I don't speak Chinese
>>18719223>did autism have any practical use in hunter gatherer societiesI mean yeah, depending on the flavor. Ugg might be quiet and weird about touching raw meat and have no interest in getting an Uggette and making little Ugglings or doing ceremonial dances and he's generally just kind of a weird pussy but on the other hand that means more Ugettes to go around, he spends all day knapping flint better than anyone and he's bad at telling stories but he knows all of them by heart.
>>18718754Why did gravity not exist until the 1700s?
>>18719245It's a saying by some obscure e-celeb according to google.https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gunga-ginga
>>18719279>muh left-handedness chartLGBTQIA+ numbers already show signs of stagnation and decline. Don't worry, autism's 15 minutes of fame will soon come to an end as well.
>>18718754They were just considered retarded or odd.
>>18718754the move from the multigenerational family to the nuclear "working dad, stay-at-home-mom and two children" made that constitution much more common - at the same time when social skills became much more important
>>18719180This, but in the stone age!
>>18719281... YeahAnd "I don't speak Chinese" is the original response from the first Ginga gunga drive by vine
>>18718754Why did cigarettes not cause lung cancer until the 1960s?
>>18718754The same reason there were no near Earth asteroids until 10 years agoYou utter fucking bottom of the barrel 40 IQ retard
>>18719667It's well documented that they started putting caciengenics in cigarettes after WW2 once Hitler could no longer stop them. German cigarettes were clean.
>>18719667>>18719696Again with the false equivalence. LGBT numbers are already beginning to decline, and autism will join them too.
they were just considered retarded / mentally infirm, which much of the population was back then due to fetal alcohol syndrome, poor nutrition during pregnancy/infancy, heavy metal poisoning etc. also all causing high amounts of dumb fucks shambling around
>>18719223I don't know, but medieval society had hermits who maintained toll bridges and ferries and the like.
>>18719155>>18719155lel...you kinda sound a little special yourself, but at least you use punctuation and capitalization. Anyways..."Autism" was coined by Eugen Bleuler, a Swiss psychiatrist who has been labeled a racist by modern doctors and therapists. Apparently he was a fan of eugenics and the idea of encouraging people with mental illnesses to stop breeding.Also:Psychologists don't make diagnoses; psychiatrists do. Psychology and psychiatry are two very different professions which work with each other. • Psychiatrists are real doctors. Once they finish ≥7 years of schooling—including time as an intern in residency at a hospital psych ward—they obtain the title of doctor/MD. They make official diagnoses and prescribe medications to patients.• Psychologists are not medical doctors, but many earn a PhD. Their job mainly consists of one-on-one therapy.FYI: No one in the sphere of psychiatry has ever "invented" a disorder of the mind. They categorize and label clusters of similar psychological symptoms because it makes it easier to treat patients.
>>18718754Because they used to just say you are socially awkward or weird.
>>18720104Yes, the numbers will go down because it was a fad to consider yourself "neurodivergent" or autistic for a while—exactly like the fad of labelling yourself "genderqueer" or one of the thousand other identities they came up with during the pandemic.All the numbers of people claiming they have autism spectrum disorder, dissociative identity disorder (multiple personalities), Tourette's syndrome, body dysmorphia, etc will decline rapidly over the next year or two. They'll return to normal/baseline as the fad of gaining popularity for having these issues is thankfully over.I can only imagine what the next trend will be if the last was faking mental illness.
>>18719667>Why did cigarettes not cause lung cancer until the 1960s?Tobacco's effects were documented in the 19th century.
>>18718754Because autism are just the remaining normal people, after they were exterminated by retards. As a child you start thinking with a very high error tolerance, so you can form quick opinions and start functioning in some way. Then as you start growing up, your error tolerance drops, you start rejecting your childish opinions, and come up with better replacements.This means that infantile people have high error tolerance, and think they are geniuses, because they always have an answer, but no ability to understand it's a stupid answer. They think that normal adults are simply not able to understand their stupid beliefs.One day, they started killing (and sterilizing) all normal people. Now we are in situation where normal people are ostracized. There is nothing you can do, they can see your grown up face, and treat you as a defective retard, even though you are a thousand times smarter than them. You even don't really know the culture and customs, as once you start growing up, your life is effectively over, so nobody has ever talked with you seriously since you were something like eleven.
