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[quote=Anonymous]Other people have mentioned the good and bad of the economy so I'll focus on something else.

I'm 64. My kids were born in the 90s. My oldest showed classic ADHD behavior from a young age. I had a lot of pushback from just about everyone about getting this diagnosis: teachers, relatives, et al. People did not believe it was real or thought you were just trying to drug your child because you didn't want to take responsibility or the solutions were no sugar or food 
additives or more discipline. As if we weren't trying these things! A lot of judgment and condescension from others. I also had PPD and had a hard time letting myself get medication for it. I didn't tell people because I felt embarrassed because I couldn't shake it by exercise, diet, journaling and other things.

There was less knowledge and compassion towards mental health issues. We may have gone too far in the other direction but there is much more acceptance about neurodiversity, learning disabilities, depression and anxiety and useful treatment and interventions.

When I hear RFK Jr talking about ADHD and depression, I hear the opinions of people back then and their insistence that these problems had non-medical solutions.

It was a good era but harbingers of things to come happened too, like the car bombing in the World Trade Center and the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing. I remember that in particular as really horrific and I remember reading about the militia movement which seened really out there and weird to me. 
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