Figured would toss these on here as I’m both lazy and a disaster, but here you go (these are ancient history fwiw, when I was 9). Shouldn’t have any triggering/sad shit (didn’t screenshot, basically) but may as well share 9 year old me’s glorious basedness:
I think the 1987 revision of the DSM was the first time autism was recognized as its own distinct thing—outside of just being a subset of schizophrenia. And even then it was mostly a differentiation between, “Do you
have schizophreniado weird things and cannot communicate them effectively, or are you Rain Man Super Genius Savant Boy?”Note that I don’t include the word “girl” or “woman” in any of my descriptions of the time. Females are just moody, apparently!
Ah, rip