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John Scalzi
@scalzi.com

Anyone who doesn't think we had autistic kids back in the day didn't know the kids I knew in elementary school, the ones that were called "hyper" or "spastic" or were suspected of having "water on the brain," etc. Kids today are a lot better off with a formal diagnosis and treatment.

Bacon Grease
@bacongrease.bsky.social

I remember kids being described as "shy" that would without a doubt be on the spectrum today. Autism hasn't increased (at least not in the ways people imagine), what we call Autism has. I had literally never heard of Autism before St Elsewhere.

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