Why wernt conditions like autosm taken more seriously in...

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In the past? If it was, do you think there would be more understanding and acceptance?

Because why help those who will never get well? It was better to lock them up.

Mental health is still not taken seriously today despite more acceptance.

Autistic people are still screwed over in today's world. Instead of being locked up institutions as in the past, many autistic people are forcibly or coercively given medicine at high doses which functions as a chemical straight jacket for many.

Autistic people are often discriminated against in the workplace and the economy, making it extremely difficult to obtain or to retain a job and thus, autistic people are essentially 'frozen out' of many of the basic living standards that other people take for granted, including personal freedoms, whether financially or living independently and so on.

Autistic people are simply tolerated nowadays at best, or more often, autistic people hide away from the world either in their parents house or group homes to evade a society that effectively persecutes autistic people.

For people who attain independence, employment instability often leads to poverty and anxiety about paying the bills.

Because the autism world is tiny and insignificant to the huge universe of other issues.

It seems huge to us because we are in the middle of it all.

But to put it in perspective we are tiny fish in a small pool of water left behind by the tide on the beach next to the giant ocean.

It's an invisible disability, so until they figured out how to demonstrate its existence, I guess people with ASD were mostly viewed as inexplicably fussy, oversensitive, uncaring, clumsy, and awkward. From that perspective it's understandable that they'd have been dismissed as unsuitable for society and for many types of job.

Nowadays society has no such excuse, but I doubt that things are much better. In fact they might be worse in some ways - I get the feeling that change happens faster these days, and that communication isn't as pedantically clear as it used to be.

Religion, perhaps.  I have to wonder how many children having meltdowns were treated as being "demon possessed".

Or maybe the shame of producing a child who was "slow" or "retarbed" due to G^D's judgment upon the sins of the parents.

And for those who were only mildly affected . . . rocking, no eye contact, special interests, stimming . . . "Thay's gotta be sumpin wrong wi' tha' boy!"

When autism was considered to be nothing more than demon possession or a form of mental retardation, "understanding" and "acceptance" were not part of the picture, event for the parents.

Why?

Where does this line of thinking came from?
What's the basis for this statement?

Yes, this!! ! spot on!
If we add that we are little fish to the fact that autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions were only fairly recently discovered and is only now being understood, science has come a very long way in the past 10 years or so, it is no wonder that so many of us wandered around undiagnosed and misunderstood (and still do).