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Oh 100%. It's the same thing with autism. "Back in my day we didn't have no autists!" Yes, gramps, you did. Problem was that you tied them up and kept them in the boiler room because you didn't understand them.
Like I had no idea Oscar Wilde was gay despite being aggressively a homosexual. Why? Because my teacher taught me growing up that Oscar Wilde just had many male friends. Also had no idea Alan Turing was gay. No idea that Patrocles and Achilles were gay. No idea that Alexander the Great was a flaming homosexual. That man had to be literally dragged away from the body of someone he grieved over for days and buried as a God but "they were just good friends."
once when I was being an (at the time) unmedicated AuDHD 5 year old, my autistic mom tried to tell me there was "no autism in my day". She got upset when I didn't believe her.
it's worth pointing that my grandpa (moms side) was really autistic in hindsight. He never got higher than a D in highschool, took apart my grandma's hairdryer the first day they got married to "figure out how it worked", and was so obsessed with fishing that his trophies took up too much space and had to be moved to the garage.
I'm convinced that my great grandfather was autistic. My great grandfather could recite the inner mechanisms of a V1 and V2 guidence system 70 years after last laying eyes on them, he could also remember how to disassemble a Stuka air break similarly well. There was also the fact that whenever my great grandmother got a new appliance he HAD to disassemble it and reassemble it.
Just as a quick note he was not German, he was American-Scots he was in US Naval R&D during the war.
It's amazing. When I got my diagnosis it was like... I was about to say like a bell had been rung. But it was more like I was finally aware that the humming noise around me was because a bell had been rung? I dunno how everyone else doesn't get that realization about the past too