(April 27, 2025 at 9:57 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(April 27, 2025 at 12:01 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: The ones jumping on the RFK Jr. bandwagon seem to forget a few things. There are more people diagnosed with autism because we know more about it....I can look back to my school days and know there were classmates that would have been on the spectrum if the spectrum was a thing back then.
Not all that different from the rise in cancer diagnosis since we know more and test sooner and the tests are better.
It's not so much there are more people with certain things but rather that we now have names for and look for certain things.
2) We've been here all this fucking time. You just didn't have much of a grasp of what autism even was back then.
I am aware of that. My point was that there wasn't a diagnosis.
As for the Wapner reference...I was in school and aware that some people were "different" long before Rain Man ever came out. However, I didn't know a name for it. I don't think anyone except perhaps a few scientists, psychologists, psychiatrists.
It was a thing...probably always a thing...but it wasn't officially named yet.
You need to calm down. I am saying some of us have learned. It's dolts like RFK Jr. who are trying to make it a stigma again. Fuck a damn duck.
I'm your huckleberry.
