An excellent question. For a literature example to share, have you ever heard of Anne of Green Gables, a series of novels from the early 1900s? The title character herself would be treated for ADHD today, and there is another whose name escapes me that would be under ADD.
But they don’t have these terms, it’s the 1900s, so these characters are simply excitable, absent minded, moody, day-dreamers…
Neurodiversity has been with us probably as long as neurons, but we like to make people fit a mold, and anyone who deviates is given a funny nickname and pushed into the mold anyway, or ostracized for their “incompatibility”.
Same with autism and any others, we’re just at the point where we want to look at it medically, and use medications and therapies to get them in the mold, rather than “a good whipping and back to the school books, damn slur” you’d get in the past.
Woah thanks i appreciate that answer. It leaves me with many more questions and strenghtens my belief in my hypothesis that this being a problem is a deeper global conscienceness issue .
An excellent question. For a literature example to share, have you ever heard of Anne of Green Gables, a series of novels from the early 1900s? The title character herself would be treated for ADHD today, and there is another whose name escapes me that would be under ADD.
But they don’t have these terms, it’s the 1900s, so these characters are simply excitable, absent minded, moody, day-dreamers…
Neurodiversity has been with us probably as long as neurons, but we like to make people fit a mold, and anyone who deviates is given a funny nickname and pushed into the mold anyway, or ostracized for their “incompatibility”.
Same with autism and any others, we’re just at the point where we want to look at it medically, and use medications and therapies to get them in the mold, rather than “a good whipping and back to the school books, damn slur” you’d get in the past.
Woah thanks i appreciate that answer. It leaves me with many more questions and strenghtens my belief in my hypothesis that this being a problem is a deeper global conscienceness issue .