• resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee
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    29 days ago

    I forget which, but a comedian has a bit that goes “sure, autism didn’t exist in the past, and my neighbor just had $1m worth of train sets in his basement because he was “eccentric.”

  • Marte@lemmy.eco.br
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    29 days ago

    I know this is just a meme but autistic people were probably less seen as eccentric, cute and quirky; more likely put in mental institutions where they were abused and in some cases killed. :/

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      29 days ago

      I find it weird to think about this sometimes, especially the fact that in a different time, I’d have probably been institutionalised, despite modern standards considering me “high functioning” that I got to go to university (where I met many other autistic nerds).