It really is a mystery

Yup. People who were slow or not right only stopped being institutionalised in the 1980s. Prior to that, kids with all kinds of neurodiversities and intellectual disabilities were largely sent away.

for like 2000 years up until about 1900, Europeans thought that when their kids suddenly started acting weird (not talking, becoming overly emotional, losing emotions, etc.) that fairies came in the night an replaced their kids with changelings so the parents would send the kids back out into the forest by themselves to be with the fairies. Today some governments believe that a magic potion taken by mothers during pregnancy causes it.

Thank you for saying this. Ive always wondered how many neurodivergent and mental ill kids and adults have been silenced in the past. Also, if we go back further, they mustve been lobotomized or abandoned in the asylums where they basically wouldnt see the sun light ever again. Its not that they didnt exist, its that they were removed from the community...

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