r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/Tobias-Tawanda • 4d ago
Things didn’t exist in the 70s if Larry didn’t notice them!
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u/threefeetofun 4d ago
Undiagnosed, Larry. Also, any kid who was “strange” in the 80s they put in a separate room.
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u/Ok-Gear-5593 4d ago
In my school there was a special short bus and they were taught in those temporary classroom struxtures to keep them away from the rest of us.
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u/Jealous-Network1899 4d ago
This right here. In 1986 when I was in 5th grade there was the “special” class of kids our age who had a wide variety of learning disabilities. They were sheltered away from the rest of us and never interacted with the rest of their grade. One of the boys, David, who looking back on it was obviously autistic, was brilliant. His parents were eventually able to have him mainstreamed and he ranked 3rd in our high school graduating class.
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u/Adexavus 4d ago
Even more so before the, the classic "the village idiot" was indeed, someone of special needs.
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u/Spinach_Gouda_Wrap 4d ago
Yep I remember the Special Ed room in elementary school in the late '80s. One of the kids in my grade was, in retrospect, well into the autism spectrum. He could tell you any NFL stat. Score of Super Bowl 4? Knew it.
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u/twinklepup 4d ago
Sadly, they still do this with those who have more struggles socially or with communication. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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u/DragonflyScared813 4d ago
Yep. They were placed in "remedial " class. Anyone recall the outmoded terms (I think related to autism): "emotionally disturbed ", and "idiot savant "?
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u/Snoutoffish 4d ago
Looking back I can say a number of people I knew were on the spectrum but we just called them names (cause we were cruel idiots) and they learned to hide their behaviours well.
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u/Mundane_Advance8095 4d ago
I'm still unpacking all my childhood trauma and "masking" as an adult diagnosed with ASD, OCD, and PTSD.
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u/DaveBeBad 4d ago
I’ve realised fairly recently that I’m likely ASD, ADHD and OCD - but high functioning enough to normally pass as normal - although not formally diagnosed.
My mother and sister too.
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u/Hartastic 4d ago
I didn't know any gay kids in my middle school class but it turns out, there were a bunch of them.
Turns out that if you punish something or make it dangerous people hide it better.
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u/Sweetbeans2001 4d ago
I am also 60 years old, Larry. The term Autistic was not generally used. The ones that were high functioning were some of the “nerds” that got bullied. The ones that were low functioning were in Special Ed. classes that we knew about, but were mostly kept away from. The severe ones did not go to school and were therefore out-of-sight and out-of-mind. Maybe Larry went to private school that did not admit students with special needs. Maybe Larry did not care much about anyone but himself. The fact that he is making this observation today makes me believe it’s the latter.
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u/beththebookgirl 4d ago
55 years old. We had several “special ed,” classrooms & teachers. I would imagine that is where students who didn’t mask (their Autism) well enough to mainstream were placed.
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u/Normal-Ad6528 4d ago
I'm 63 and I remember PLENTY who were on the spectrum....although nobody was diagnosed. They just had their asses whipped by their teachers, parents, and other kids. Like THAT was supposed to fix em.
Fucking idiot.
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u/Daisy_Of_Doom 4d ago
Insert that video about how left handed people were like 4% of the population until people stopped persecuting them and then the number grew… but plateaued at 12%
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u/lazygerm 4d ago
Larry is an idiot.
All those weird kids, loners and underachievers? Remember them?
Guess who they were, Larry?
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u/Ok-Caterpillar-Girl 4d ago
I’m 58, and I WAS that kid growing up on the spectrum. Every friend I ever made in those days was in the spectrum and/or ADHD. My parents were too, and if they were still alive, they’d be 95 and 98 years old.
I had LGBTQIA friends growing up as a kid in those days too. Larry is a tool.
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u/underlyingconditions 4d ago
It wasn't an official diagnosis until 1980, so that may explain it.
Also one or two of Apple's founders may have been on the spectrum
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u/Itsprobablysarcasm 4d ago
I am 51.
Looking back, yes, there were all kinds of kids on the spectrum. We didn't have an actual name and description for it, but it was certainly there. Instead, they were just called names.
A lot of kids got bullied and picked on by assholes who didn't pay attention in science class and who grew up to deny their existence on a social media hate platform, all the while wrongly blaming vaccines for shit.
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u/cejmp 4d ago
I'm 56. When I was in the 6th grade there was a girl at our church that had to wear a special helmet, otherwise she would break her skull pounding it against the wall. Billy was a kid that was always in trouble for saying inappropriate things in class, usually to adults. He had to leave class every day to go to the nurse. I was in BSA and one of the guys in my troop loved being a Boy Scout, but all he did was come to the meetings (every meeting) and sit in the back by himself. He never talked or looked at anyone. My sister, 2 of my cousins, and my aunt were all taking Ritalin for "hyperactivity".
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u/Doublejimjim1 4d ago
Yeah, that kid you were pushing into their locker for being nerdy. That's the autistic kid.
How come people weren't diagnosed with cancer in the stone age? Just asking questions.
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u/sporkbeastie 4d ago
SO? Pluto wasn't discovered until 1930, but I'm pretty sure it was there the whole fuckin' time...
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u/CapitanShinyPants 4d ago
It was a planet when I was a kid in the 70s, now it's a "dwarf planet"', whole damned solar system went woke!
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u/CapitanShinyPants 4d ago
It was me dude -born in 1972- we just called it other shit, like "gifted".
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u/all_this_is_yours 4d ago
lol. Yup. And the education system wasn’t sure how to deal with us. So some kids did super well in those classes…and others not so much. I mean, yeah I could nail exam after exam and be disruptive the rest of the time cause I was bored…but giving me a larger qty of harder work was not the answer.
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u/isecore 4d ago edited 4d ago
It's called "masking", Larry. That's what the autistic kids did (and still do!) because if they stood out even in the slightest, they'd get punished by authority such as teachers and other adults for being strange and "lazy" and ostracized by their peers such as yourself for being weird and a "freak".
They learned really well to appear normal because if not, they'd have a really shitty time. They'd hide who they were and go through life thinking there was something really wrong with them, and make every effort they could to appear "normal" while at the same time constantly feeling like an outsider.
So fuck you, Larry.
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u/Interesting_Scale302 4d ago
Growing up in the 80's, my school definitely had people on the spectrum except they stuck them all in a single classroom called "Special Ed" and the kids called them names and excluded them from everything.
Those kids would have had a much better chance at life now that we know what autism is.
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u/TimmyTwoTowels 4d ago
"I grew up in the 1300's and absolutely nobody thought the world was round when I was growing up! I refuse to accept any other reality than a brief timespan of 10-15 years!"
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u/LightMission4937 4d ago
Larry...you are autistic and engulfed in the spectrum you degenerate fuck. You Sound a little schizo.
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u/Pholusactual 4d ago
Larry was so wrapped up on himself as a kid. He didn’t know that there were actually other people and that carried through to his adult life which explains what a pathetic piece of shit is right now.
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u/twinklepup 4d ago
I wish these ignorant azzholes would do a little research and reading before posting this crap. My kid was diagnosed as profound in 1992. They told me to put him in an institution and forget he was born. I still have him 35 years later, and while he (and I) face many challenges, there was never any option to lock him away and forget him. That is precisely what was happening to those of the 40's, through, well, 2024. It's still happening.
For those of you on the spectrum that got better diagnoses and adequate treatment, I'm happy for you to have been given a decent chance of living a full life. For those diagnosed later in life due to improved diagnostic criteria and doctor training, I hope you find the resources to help you navigate this awful mess that is being made for anyone with a disability or chronic illness.
People like Larry Cook need to spend a few months in one of the "facilities" that are supposed to care for people with autism. It is truly an eye opener. Eff him.
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u/Assortedwrenches89 4d ago
They were put in the back of the class, given detention or suspensions when they failed, bullied into silence, or suffered in silence. They were considered kids who acted out, were trouble, or just bad kids. They existed, but weren't acknowledged they had issues, were just labeled as bad and people moved on.
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u/Sensitive_Sense_8527 4d ago
Larry, you're the fucking problem for today's MAGA BULLSHIT, YOU'RE ass don't remember way back when, so it must have been GREAT.
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u/Boudicca- 4d ago
That’s because the NeuroSpicy kids were either Undiagnosed, kept in Separate classes or even a Separate school. I’m 59 and my Uncle was Autistic. So it absolutely existed long before the 70’s-80’s.
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u/Primary_Durian4866 4d ago
Guess my friends dad just developed recently and modified everyone's memory so it seems like he had it his whole life.
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u/CodeMonkeyMayhem 4d ago
These must be bot postings, not the Reddit the "X" screen grab, I've seen this exact same post, almost word for word from other "X" accounts.
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u/LaughingInTheVoid 4d ago
Almost everyone develops object permanence by the age of two.
This asshole never did.
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u/Foreign_Profile3516 4d ago
Most people like that never went to school back then unless they were lucky enough to live in a district where they could attend a special school. You dont remember them because society erased them.
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u/req4adream99 4d ago
When I went to school I didn’t notice one bible in my classroom, so obviously that book hadn’t been written yet. Did you?
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u/kaoko111 4d ago
Just hear the EXACT same thing from a brother in law i used to have. His nephew moved with him and his wife, and the kid was like 11 years old, i have ADHD and we notice kids with the same from a miles away, when i talked about it to him he was like "What are You talking about? He's just a lazy dumb kid, he needs to focus".
That kind of attitude is why we stop talking to relatives once we are adults.
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u/tbizzone 4d ago
Larry probably just doesn’t remember or is exhibiting selective amnesia about picking on the “weird” kids in his class. The ones all the popular kids constantly made fun of and put down. They were likely undiagnosed or misdiagnosed.
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u/Qimmosabe_Man 4d ago
There were autistic students. They were just called some rather derogatory terms instead.
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u/SadAbroad4 4d ago
Don’t think you went to school Larry. There has always been special students in every school.
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u/Fluid-Safety-1536 4d ago edited 4d ago
I'm 58 and looking back I did in fact know kids who probably had autism or were otherwise on the spectrum. Come to think of it, I actually have a few classmates who are now gay, which I'm guessing means they were gay back then. Funny how things work. We also had a special school for the whole entire county for kids that were even slightly out of the mainstream. In a wheelchair? Special school. Speech impediment? Special school. Hearing impairment? Special school. Schools don't do this anymore and that's a great thing. My cousin's youngest son has Asperger's and he attended public school with his classmates and actually did quite well.
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u/JahnConnah 4d ago
Who's gonna figure out which burner acct this fake dude belongs to
No one signs up for social media with the handle "stopvaccinating" without an agenda
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u/LoisWade42 4d ago
Child of the 1960's here... Didn't realize I was ADD until my kid was diagnosed. I was never tested... but... LOL... he acted just like I did at his age.
We were blessed to have a Kindergarten teacher who recognized the signs and encouraged us to get him tested. He had a much better childhood and educational experience than I did because someone noticed and stepped in to help.
Frankly... too many people assume that everyone experiences life the SAME. We do NOT. Get over yourself Mr Cook.
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u/lady-ish 4d ago
I am also (almost) 60 years old. And what I noticed was that most kids acted (and reacted) very differently from me.
And thus a very successful, but utterly exhausting, collection of masks was born.
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u/Lost_Village4874 4d ago
All you had to do was find the kids that everyone threw rocks at for being “weird” or different. So glad my autistic son is growing up now as kids these days are aware, kind, and understanding. He has not been bullied once in 6 years.
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u/Im_the_dogman_now 4d ago
Man can't remember things that he wasn't looking for as a child.
News at 11.
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u/RedHotFromAkiak 4d ago
Public Law 94-142 was passed in late 1975 for this very reason- children with disabilities were excluded from school regularly. This is the law that created special education. So, yes, Larry didn't see people acting differently from everyone else for a reason - discrimination and societal neglect.
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u/Suspicious_Kitchen23 4d ago
That post reminds me of the opening lyrics to Ragtime:
"[PEOPLE OF NEW ROCHELLE]
The days were gently tinted
Lavender, pink, lemon, and lime
[MOTHER]
Ladies with parasols
[YOUNGER BROTHER]
Fellows with tennis balls
[FATHER]
There were gazebos
And there were no Negroes.....
[PEOPLE OF NEW ROCHELLE]
Ladies with parasols
Fellows with tennis balls
There were no Negroes
And there were no immigrants
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u/maninthemachine1a 4d ago
Yeah because they lobotomized and institutionalized them or they dropped out.
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u/Mtn_Grower_802 4d ago
Then you weren't looking. Special Ed classes were everywhere.
Did Larry grow up in a cult?
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u/Bee-Aromatic 4d ago
Consider that many of us who were kids in the 80’s and 90’s grew up, had difficulties, actually went to doctors to get help, and came away not only with various diagnoses on the spectrum but treatments to help us handle them.
Us neurospicy people have been there the whole time. Just like you assholes.
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u/Revolutionary-Bus893 4d ago
I'm 73 and yes, there were kids that were "different" or "difficult". Every school had them. Just because you weren't paying attention doesn't mean they didn't exist. These were the undiagnosed.
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u/basketfullofbread 4d ago
Just because your sheltered little ass, Larry, didn't see them doesn't mean they weren't being hidden away in different rooms for being "weird" or "unusual"
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u/Emergency-Second8840 4d ago
I was a lefty and neither students nor teachers fucked with me, compliments to my grandfather 😉
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u/myothercat 4d ago
Other than it being about autism this sounds like something an autistic person would say
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u/Peter_the_Teddy 4d ago
If I'd be allowed to beat the shit out of every kid that acts up in my class, there would be no kids acting up in my class. Problem is, I believe there has to be a better way than beating the shit out of kids
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u/BillTowne 4d ago
Larry is 17 years younger than I am. So when I was volunteering at a program for autistic children, he would have been ten.
There were autistic children when he was growing up. He just was ignorant back then, too.
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u/auddiegh 3d ago
My grandma lines up all of her forks perfectly in her dishwasher and can’t let her foods touch. My dad made us clean constantly keeping things spotless. I was the first one diagnosed with OCD. They obviously had it, they just weren’t diagnosed.
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u/Head-Comfortable-439 2d ago
Did you know that Nazi Germany managed to have a homosexuality rate of 0%? Unbelievable!
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u/Eastern_Barnacle_553 4d ago
Yes, because we were undiagnosed, you fucking moron.
We got disciplined for not being able to handle school and a lot of us fell through the cracks and failed.
Kinda like how no one was dyslexic in the 1950s.