Read Neurotribes by Steve Silberman

One asshole at Hopkins, leo kanner, sat on neuridiversity info all through most boomer childhoods.

Their parents got blamed for it by their own depression-era parents.

There was only one way to be, only certain foods, everything else was either a sin or a personal failure. Those kids could not answer questions honestly, just repeat back the same approved cultural pablum that maga wants to go back to.

Simple has several meanings.

The only light was Dr. Spock, but too subtle for many readers, he had to couch things carefully in his time and the culture was deafening.

Only after Lorna Wing released her work in the 70s did it start to normalise for some Gen Xers.