[cajungirl]

well, in the olden days, there were not as many syndromes or identified ones anyway. And not as many medicines. And certainly not the amount of knowledge we have today. So that is why they survived without them. I might remind you that they didn't live as long, didn't get treated as well and died or had disability unnecessarily. Aspergers has always been around, the kids were just called odd balls, misfits, etc and were generally scapegoated, treated badly by peers and didn't have the chance to function as well as they were able. Same thing with alot of mental and neurological disorders. But hey, if you want to bring back the olden days I do hope you will give up your personal access to statins, insulin, stent surgery and new methods of treating your cancer,,,get my point?

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

I was just casting my mind back to the '40s and '50s when people were still relying more on a faith in God and their own will power to survive. My mother lost two of her younger sisters to influenza in the early teens so don't tell me about medical advancements. Some of it's good, but there is a lot of pseudo science being passed off as gospel by the media, the AMA and the pharmaceutical companies. Too much introspection and too much whining today. All this touchy-feely stuff is infectious. I call it, "The feminization (or Oprahization) of America".