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I dunno if this is true of not, but I have a feeling about this.

I think I grew in the tail end of a era when families were very secretive of their child's diagonsis of Autism. True until recently people with AS weren't diagonsed as being Autistic. But no doubt many people with HFA would have been diagonsed even 30, 40 or even 50 years ago.

My family was no expection, I lived with my mother after my parent's broke up when I was 4 and never told me about my Autism. I found out that I had Autism by reading a court report, regarding the custody battles between mother and father, it mentioned I had been diagonsed with Autism.

In this era I'm describing Autism was seen as something so shameful, that the idea of their child having it had be kept secret from everyone else.

You think this, because your parents didn't tell you that you were diagnosed with autism? I hardly think that's indicative of prevalent thinking as an 'era'. In some families, it may have been. In others, not so. The only reason I can think why that would change, is because parents are more informed about autism. Back then, it was more like a spiel on how useless and futureless their child was. What would they tell you? Even if they had been aware, it probably wasn't expedient to tell you. How much would you have understood if they tried to tell you? Even more so, how much would your parents think you would understand? Not a lot.