this gets so much funnier when you consider that people literally just live on mount everest, there's a perfect parallel between random europeans "discovering" a mountain that people already live on and medical professionals suddenly discovering autism despite people having it going back god knows how long
I once read a post (probably on twitter) where someone asked something like: If neurodiverse people have always been around, how did they get by in times past and ancient times?
The thread was about how there were accommodations even if people of the times didn't truly understand differences in the way the brain worked. So you're sensitive to sound and want to be left alone hyperfixating? Welcome to the Abbey where we make illuminated manuscripts. Welcome to the jewelry guild where we make the tiniest of beads, then string them together into complex designs. Welcome to the rug factory where we do the same but with animal hair.
Hell, in ancient times it was probably much easier to be neurodiverse and to be accommodated because there weren't these ridiculous ideas about having to work 8 hours straight in a day, or even work during the day, and there wasn't so much effing noise everywhere, or the same kinds of societal expectations, not to mention being far more community-minded instead of individualistic.






















