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Exactly. Just because it wasn’t diagnosed doesn’t mean it didn’t exist. Boomers be like, “We just called him quirky and made him sit in the hallway for 12 years.” 😩📚
Reminds me of ppl who “don’t get ppl who are depressed” and say “just do fun things, why you being so down”.
Boomers : There were no gay or trans people in my day
Openly gay and trans people when boomers were young :
exactly. If you were on the spectrum and didn’t mask well they just kicked you out of school or wouldn’t allow you to enroll in the first place.
This is about to be real again without the DOE
The stutter got so bad I was taken out of my grade and put in the special class held in the boiler room.
My only other classmate was named Gilly.
He’d fallen through the ice as a child and was technically dead for 57 minutes.
They taught us to sweep sawdust so we could find work at a mill.
I’m sure whoever said that thing in the post had no idea…
Of course, I overcame the stutter in three languages.
On to Princeton, Harvard, the top of the business world.
I thought I’d blocked this out, but a thing like this brings back some old emotions.
I’m so sorry.
I feel like I’m back in that boiler room making little piles of sawdust while Gilly plays with himself in the corner.
LMFAOOOOO
Back when being gay, a woman being too free willed or emotional could be committed or lobotomized…
Its like when old people complain about allergies. “There weren’t all these allergies back in my day, never even heard of a peanut allergy!”
Because they died, Mark.
Unfortunately true. I’m gen Z and I am high functioning, level 1, but didn’t get diagnosed until I turned 19. I had this one teacher who literally locked me in a dark closet bc she didn’t know how to deal with me. Like, babe, that’s a war crime and they just get away with it because in general, people don’t know how to “deal” with autism kids
💀
What about Grandma with her 1,265 spoon collection, and knows the story behind each one.
Or grandpa with like 13 of the same collector car cause they’re were different options and trim packages and he wanted to have the full set
Holy fuck hahaha
Hundred years ago there were no left handed students either. The generation that stopped punishing kids like me must’ve thought, “gee, there’s an explosion of lefties nowadays!”
*Aw ThAt? wE wAs JuSt FoOliNg ArOunD? tHeY lIkEd ThE aTtEnTiOn*
A common note on some of my report cards from the ’70’s-’80’s.
____ is a good student, although he has trouble staying seated, interrupts the class and has difficulty staying focused.
They were in special ed
Ok I have autism and I find this hilarious
Dear Diary, Jackpop
omg lol
🤣 ouch
My mom went to a school where they would hit you if you were left handed because being left handed was a sign of evil
Imagine what they did to the guy who couldn’t make eye contact
Wish we could turn back time. To the good old days.
Its funny cause it’s true…
Nah you gave em scissors and let them cut the grass
Autistic kids stayed home, because mom was a homemaker.
My grandma taught special ed in the 50’s , this is literal. She was kindly encouraged to retire in the 70’s after a kid was left locked in a closet for longer than was deemed an acceptable amount of locked in a closet time.
Ah yes, “the good old days” when beatings and humiliation were the solution to all society’s problems.
Yall mfs didn’t go to an underfunded public school if you didn’t have the severely autistic kids in class dramatically affecting the vibe from time to time
I remember being put into what was called special class because I had learning difficulties and test anxiety.
I can recall being given worksheets with basic math and no supervision.
Autism credentials?
Up there with my great aunts saying there as no gay back in the day, and commenting on my great cousin and his best freind of decades and how it was a sad they never found good wife’s.
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