• resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee
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    1 month 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.”

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      1 month 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).