• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Adults get weird when the indoctrinating they and society put so much effort into doesn’t take hold. So much so, that they find some mental illness like Autism to label the child with.

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          3 months ago

          “Neuro-divergent” seems to be the catch-all today. Though I guess that’s considered on the spectrum too? Anyway, the majority of these cases seem to be “diagnosed” by YouTube parents.

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            3 months ago

            I was diagnosed by an over ambitious child study team member in kindergarten that convinced my mother I had a learning disability. What followed was 13 years of wasted public education because every success proved the program worked and every failure proved the program was necessary.

            If it had happened today, I would have been diagnosed with autism and nothing would be better.