We didn't used to have left handed people either --- we just had right handed people with really shitty handwriting...
I'm right handed and still have really shitty handwriting.
I'm 52 now... Probably about 10 or 15 so, I meet my kindergarten teacher (relatively small community) and she told me that she was among the first teachers that allowed children to be left handed.
Definitely have shitty left handed writing and ADHD!
Woah, I've never thought of this and want to see this. Anyone who's left handed but forced to write with their right, who want to write the same sentence twice with either hand and attach a pic?
So I was supposed to be all lefty but my hand got fucked up as a baby with an infection so in the formative months I had to do stuff right handed.
So everything that's foot based I do left, or goofy foot where appropriate, and hand stuff is all right handed.
My left hand is fine now and I can throw better with my left hand than most right handed people can tho so that's nice.
Left hand writing is still shit tho
But they had lots of alcoholics. Entirely coincidentally, of course.
Alcoholics, Maniacs, Idiots, Shell Shocked, the Insane...
There was this baseline assumption of normality, and then there was this hyper-dramatized lunatic or raving drunk, and you weren't supposed to really notice anyone in between. The idea of a high performing addict or adaptive neurodivergent was nearly non-existent. Two people with ADHD could be staring sideways at a third in disgust, simply because the third wasn't well-socialized or required some amount of assistance to get around.
My 95 year old grandmother realized she was neurodivergent last month while I was talking about mine and my siblings' audhd symptoms.
They had all of it, they just lumped it all in with Down Syndrome and colloquially referred to any neurodivergent people as retards.
And they beat the shit out of these "retards", and at the suggestion of doctors/principals the parents sent them to military school/boarding school/catholic school/mental institutions where they got the shit beat out of them. All they learned was how to hide their condition and suffer in silence.
But hey, at least one of them became President.
Which time?
I’m not adhd nor a woman, but any time this comes up I mention this:
https://slowrevealgraphs.com/2021/11/08/rate-of-left-handedness-in-the-us-stigma-society/
Brilliant!
Nothing autistic about a 60 yr old guy with $30k model train set and 1/12th scale replica of the town in their basement.
They're dead Janice. You killed them.
My personal theory is that the industrial revolution created more neurodivergence. The fact that stuff like computers and trains are common obsessions means that the development of technology is making life more neurodivergent friendly. My grandfather worked for Rolls Royce so I've got tech genes in me.
