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How many autistic kids did you know when you were young?
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:06 pm
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:06 pm
Born in the 70’s and I can honestly say I knew no one who would fit the definition of autistic today. So if we can agree that this is much more prevalent over the last 20 or so years, something has to be causing it right? So we are angry at our government leaders for exploring a possible connection? Got it, makes total sense!
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Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:08 pm to L5ut1g3r
Probably 1-2 now that I know what I’m looking for.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:09 pm to L5ut1g3r
Weird kids that played with puzzles and stuff?
Knew a lot of them
Knew a lot of them
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:10 pm to lsupride87
I want yall to understand this top 50 tennis player in the world is autistic. This is what “autism” is now. You knew a shite ton of kids like this in the 70s
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:10 pm to L5ut1g3r
The running joke in Medicine is that we are the high functioning autists that passed for weird.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:10 pm to lsupride87
My mommy always told me I was autistic because I was a really good painter
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:12 pm to L5ut1g3r
None. First time I even heard of it was Rain Man.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:14 pm to L5ut1g3r
Born in 1982.
Can't recall any, but surely there was one or two.
Can't recall any, but surely there was one or two.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:14 pm to L5ut1g3r
I was a bit below average growing up but I could def tell something was off if a kid didn’t speak and only meowed.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:15 pm to L5ut1g3r
Born in 56 and never heard the word back when I was a kid
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:16 pm to bamacoullion
You never heard the word but you knew tons of kids that were like this
Autism today is starting to mean nothing at all.
Autism today is starting to mean nothing at all.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:16 pm to L5ut1g3r
Zero.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:17 pm to FLTech
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Zero
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:17 pm to bamacoullion
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never heard the word back when I was a kid
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Born in 56
You dont say
This post was edited on 9/22/25 at 8:18 pm
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:18 pm to L5ut1g3r
My wife and I were just talking about this the other day, she works as a SPED teacher and the amount of kids with Autism is insane. She's at an elementary school and every single class has at least 1 kid with Autism in the class. We don't remember any when we were in grade school.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:20 pm to L5ut1g3r
None… was a kid in the 70’s.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:20 pm to L5ut1g3r
Combination of a larger population now and a massive amount of overdiagnosis.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:21 pm to Hangover Haven
quote:You had multiple modern day autistic kids at Rummel. 100%
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Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:24 pm to lsupride87
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You had multiple modern day autistic kids at Rummel. 100%
Posted on 9/22/25 at 8:24 pm to Hangover Haven
Wasn’t a Rummel joke But I see how it comes off now
But I see how it comes off now This post was edited on 9/22/25 at 8:25 pm
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