Looks around at the trump world… yep
Wonder what we’ll find out the lunchables have done to us.
it makes me wonder how neurotypical people ended up running the world
Unless you’re being sarcastic, this is absolutely not the case.
I see; I think we just had different definitions of “running the world.” I thought you meant literally the leaders of nations, but you meant setting the social conventions of society at large.
NTs aren’t running the world. Workaholic sociopaths are running the world.
NDs are becoming more and more socially accepted, and less willing to subjugate themselves. “Neurodivergent” seems to be a misnomer: NTs only seem to be “typical” when NDs closet themselves and try to emulate them.
Have you met these people IRL or online? Most of the people I’ve met online do fall into one of those two buckets, but almost nobody I’ve met IRL does.
I would assume this is selection bias before attributing it to some other thing. The kinds of circles you run in are going to heavily affect this.
It’s not whether it existed or not, it’s the prevalence of it. Nothing wrong with it of course.
Neither the greeks nor the romans were particularly shy about it and… Let’s call it non-christian ideas about sex have cropped up at various places and various times in history. That’s before the invention of plastics, so it got to be some good proof to be able to point a clear finger away from culture and towards plastics.
The cases are on average more extreme now though.
My dad’s full side is ADHD/ASD. But the millennials/genZs have more severe cases than their uncles and great uncles did.
You can look at all the related disorders that are often comorbid like autoimmune, thyroid, MCAS, etc.
Look at conditions like Type1 diabetes which is growing ~3% per year! This isn’t just better diagnostics but explained by the stress diathesis model of disease interacting with our modern synthetic world.
The cases are on average more extreme now though
This is based on your personal experience and not the evidence, which does not bear that out
Routine treatment for autism, that would be something.
I agree with you though.
Routine treatment for autism is applied behavior analysis. While ABA has its origins a hundred years ago, the field as it currently exists is very new, having really only developed in the last 25 years
Women with ADHD went so underdiagnosed that it’s considered an epidemic.
Women over the age of 35 were straight up not diagnosed because “girls don’t get ADHD.” So I do somewhat disagree with your premise.
This is why boomers hate their children.
Not sure if this is offtopic but…
My parents grew up in China but still emotionally abusive af, did China also have leaded gasoline, or did the wind just blew all the toxicity of lead from the US all the way across the world? (None of us even stepped foot in the US until like around 2010s, I think leaded gas was already banned by then…) 🤔
Or maybe my parents are just naturally born toxic… 😓
China didn’t ban it until 2000.
It’s still legal in like Afghanistan and North Korea.
Japan was the first to ban it in 1986.
Edit: to answer your question more accurately, any country with vehicles that had engines prone to knocking had it. So yes, it was very much in the atmosphere of China.
I was born after 2000 so I guess I’m fine? Does lead poisoning get passed down?
Yea I think my parents just have lead poisoning and that why they be toxic af.
My brother born before 2000 has weird racist views and conspiracy theories. Is that the lead poisoning manifesting?
We’re all still being affected by this to some extent. Effectively by putting it in the gas and burning it, we also spread it though out the environment. Obviously not as bad as rawdawging the fumes themselves like the lead head boomer and genexers, but it’s in the dust of the world you live in. You are doing way better than the generations previously. Interestingly, the generations looking to roll back the kind of regulations that protected you are the ones most affected by the lead (boomer, Gen x).
While the lead poisoning wouldn’t cause the toxic thinking, racism, and belief in conspiracy theories - it would have made them much more susceptible to it from those around them.
Like all good science, correlation does not imply causation. However, we do know that lead does accumulate in brain tissue, and we can see that the rise of lead in the atmosphere had a very strong correlation with violent crime, and the reduction of it reduced violent crime. This study and IQ show the relationship as well.
They used lead for sure, but there might have been fewer cars depending on where they lived.
Lead is probably one of the least bad things you’ve inhaled if you lived in a Chinese large or industrial city between 2000 and 2024. So you’re likely tainted as well. Sorry.
We all still get mercury from the food because many countries still allow burning waste/garbage in outdated plants without proper smoke cleaning installed. And then it spreads through the atmosphere and gets into the local food cycle when it rains. This effect is global. That’s why you shouldn’t eat fish from lakes if you’re pregnant etc. Doesn’t matter where you live.
