feathersmoons:

lark-in-ink:

thecoffeebee:

“We didn’t used to have all this ADHD and Autism and stuff” I think what you mean is that people used to go undiagnosed and get absolutely no help and were forced to suffer through their life because they had no support or understanding whatsoever but sure, Janice, pretend my generation invented Autism.

My grandfather was legit diagnosed with ADHD at the age of about 80 and he was like “OH”

HAHAHAHA OH GOD.

Do you know how many of my paternal grandfather’s stories about our family history included the line “now, of course, So-and-so would be diagnosed as ADHD in a heartbeat, but back then he was just a Bad Kid and they tried to beat it out of him”?

A LOT, OKAY.

Do you know how many other family stories suddenly make way more sense – like truly nonsensical seeming things, things that previously were described as “you know, So-and-so was just an Odd Duck – if you know the signs of autism? (Like how my great-grampa REFUSED TO GO ON PLANES and so they had to drive him across Canada in a camper in his eighties – in the seventies, so 1970s camper here, not luxury – and then back again so he could attend my parents’ wedding?)

EVEN MORE.

And in the less amusing version, d’you know how many maternal ancestors died of depression or depression-related addiction, through the generations? Depressing. Numbers.

But no, this shit is all modern, came out of nowhere. Not.