Comment on proof of wormholes
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Til autism was once understood as being the same as schizophrenia.
Quite interesting how the concept of neurodivergence is almost doing the opposite with respect to individuals who overlap on multiple neurological labels. Except it celebrates the individual uniqueness of their mind, needs, strenghts and challenges rather then generalising to find the one pill to sell to all.
I am autistic and I can understand it. When stressed, autistic people can exhibit disordered thinking or just naturally pick up on relationships and patterns that neurotypical people do not. We can also have the appearance of unpredictable volatility when facing things like burnout or abuse.
Especially in an era where mental health treatment was really just sending you you to a prison.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Eh, I wouldn’t immediately believe that. OP is playing fast and loose with their facts in this post. The first diagnosis of autism wasn’t until 1943, so how did they differentiate it from schizophrenia in 1911?
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Did a little digging and apparently the name was coined in 1911 as a symptom of schizophrenia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_autism