“autism epidemic began.”
First off, I don’t believe in the autism scare, and that comes from an entire family of medical practitioners. Every kid that doesn’t sit still like a total zombie is considered “autistic”. It comes from adults that don’t like children and want them to just shut up or go away. Children are not allowed to play and be the hyperactive kids they are supposed to be. These so-called adults forgot they were children once and ran around and didn’t pay attention, either. These adults just want little miniature adults instead of children.
Those medical practitioners aren’t around roomfuls of kids all day every day. Appointments are 15m max.
Talk to people who are in their 70’s who taught elementary school 50 years ago. Like my mom. She taught 3rd grade from 64-93. There were always little boys who had ants in their pants. And spankings in our area haven’t decreased. I joke that we live in ‘lower spanklandia’. From 93 until a couple of years ago however, my mom wasn’t around a whole lot of little kids. Then she volunteered to teach VBS when my oldest was old enough. My mom was horrified that NONE of the little boys make eye contact now without direct verbal admonition from an adult. That creeped her out no end. That’s a ‘Y’ chromosome ‘confrontational’ thing. The ‘bad’ little boys in her classrooms always made eye contact while they announced ‘you can’t make me’ or ‘I don’t want to!’. And they’re all like that now. No eye contact.
My mom thought all the hoopla over the ‘epidemic’ was parents who were rent seeking crazy checks. Till she taught that roomful of 7yr olds in ‘12. It was the change over 20 years that spooked her. Something is very different. And it isn’t that they’re not being spanked.
“autism epidemic began.”
First off, I don’t believe in the autism scare, and that comes from an entire family of medical practitioners. Every kid that doesn’t sit still like a total zombie is considered “autistic”. It comes from adults that don’t like children and want them to just shut up or go away. Children are not allowed to play and be the hyperactive kids they are supposed to be. These so-called adults forgot they were children once and ran around and didn’t pay attention, either. These adults just want little miniature adults instead of children.
How I wish you were right.
You’re not. You’re not even close. There is a huge difference between an active, boisterous child and a child on the spectrum. Even a highly functioning one. Very active children are climbing, figuring out how to paint with butter (this just happened to me an hour ago), exploring, bouncing balls, etc. All the stuff you did as a kid.
A child who has asperger’s or highly functioning autism is completely different. They will be absorbed in one small part of the toy. They might be rolling the ball in their hands, looking at it. They won’t be re climbing the couch and jumping off it in joy over and over. They will be bouncing repetitively, maybe on their toes - and it just doesn’t seem like fun, it seems like compulsion - or may be repetitive rolling on the floor, or flapping their hands. These repetitive behaviors are called “self-stimming” because they seem to be a comforting stimulation that helps them feel “good” when the real stimulation of the world gets too much. My son used spinning. Often he would just be spinning and spinning, and he explained he “just needed to.” It did calm him.
Autism is a disease of lack of social abilities, lack of being able to read social cues. Having everything overwhelm you to the point of utter frustration, at which point you break down in rage or unhappiness.
It’s not kids kept from recess.
Your description is wrong. Often it is the kid sitting like a zombie who has autism.
You insulted my intelligence at least three times upthread, but you are woefully ill informed about autism and its neurological differences.