Cross-posted from "modern psychiatry be like" by @[email protected] in [email protected]
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2025
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People have been behaving "weirdly" since written history. There have been countless stories and reports about "special" or "weird" or "possessed" people. If you compare these hundreds of years old stories to the definition of Autism, there are a remarkable amount of similarities, almost impossible to be coincidence.
But these ancient people were never called autistic... Because the word for it was only invented in 1911. And until the 70s or 80s, no one really investigated Autism very much, only a few people.
People that lived in 1910 did not suddenly get Autism in 1911. They were already autistic, just finally someone categorized and invented a word for this set of behaviors.
So in other words, it's not suddenly autistic people appearing, it's that the people that previously just were "weird" are now being discovered as autistic. Like planets that were there before, but now are being discovered.