In pre-modern societies, children who were deemed incapable of contributing to the tribe and/or a burden on resources were left for dead. Now we force parents to care for them but provide them with inadequate resources & institutional support. Both are brutal, but I think the former practice was more humane than what we have now.
In pre-modern societies, children who were deemed incapable of contributing to the tribe and/or a burden on resources were left for dead. Now we force parents to care for them but provide them with inadequate resources & institutional support. Both are brutal, but I think the former practice was more humane than what we have now.
I can relate to that. But that sounds like a relatively small group. And I m thinking more about all the severe cases that you described vs people who are relatively functional and could do with simple, down to earth jobs and an overall support that comes naturally with a tighter community.. itтАЩs the latter, described as тАЬhigh functioningтАЭ by the modern language, whom I m wondering about.
Whether they could lead a normal life in a more traditional society, with simple jobs and tighter community?
I grew up on the other side of the pond in a waaaaayyy more traditional community. And I know of someone who is in her 40s now and she has seriously deteriorated way into her 20s, after she gave birth. Now, her daughter, who is 18 now has deteriorated much earlier, in her teens. Her daughter came into a drastically different society, born in the early 2000. Her mom was born in 1970s and she was able to keep it together for much longer..
And because my 1970s happened in the USSR, those were some very different 1970s, than what you know in the US.
Ours were much earthier and basic and tribe like environment. All of us, Soviet kids of the 1970s still picked berries and mushrooms in the woods and canned them with our parents in our kitchens so that we could make it through the winter with the variety of foods. Not to mention tons of other survival skills that we all thought of as a daily routine. So, how come I now know of only a one or two severely disabled cases back in the old country and nothing about the so called тАЬhigh functioning on the spectrum..?тАЭ
I do not think these тАЬhigh functionersтАЭ are fake. No. I think they are the high risk group who suffered because of all the post-industrial changes.
In pre-modern societies, children who were deemed incapable of contributing to the tribe and/or a burden on resources were left for dead. Now we force parents to care for them but provide them with inadequate resources & institutional support. Both are brutal, but I think the former practice was more humane than what we have now.
I can relate to that. But that sounds like a relatively small group. And I m thinking more about all the severe cases that you described vs people who are relatively functional and could do with simple, down to earth jobs and an overall support that comes naturally with a tighter community.. itтАЩs the latter, described as тАЬhigh functioningтАЭ by the modern language, whom I m wondering about.
Whether they could lead a normal life in a more traditional society, with simple jobs and tighter community?
I grew up on the other side of the pond in a waaaaayyy more traditional community. And I know of someone who is in her 40s now and she has seriously deteriorated way into her 20s, after she gave birth. Now, her daughter, who is 18 now has deteriorated much earlier, in her teens. Her daughter came into a drastically different society, born in the early 2000. Her mom was born in 1970s and she was able to keep it together for much longer..
And because my 1970s happened in the USSR, those were some very different 1970s, than what you know in the US.
Ours were much earthier and basic and tribe like environment. All of us, Soviet kids of the 1970s still picked berries and mushrooms in the woods and canned them with our parents in our kitchens so that we could make it through the winter with the variety of foods. Not to mention tons of other survival skills that we all thought of as a daily routine. So, how come I now know of only a one or two severely disabled cases back in the old country and nothing about the so called тАЬhigh functioning on the spectrum..?тАЭ
I do not think these тАЬhigh functionersтАЭ are fake. No. I think they are the high risk group who suffered because of all the post-industrial changes.