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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My question is: why are some people so ageist? OP this is about your mother. Not about legions of older adults. Get a clue. Also, it's "older adults" not "elderly people." Finally, you are just like your mom. You want her to have compassion, yet you have none for her. [/quote] This. My 83YO mother is a retired special ed teacher who has specialized in autism since the early 70s.[/quote] Highly unlikely. Autism wasn’t even a diagnosis in the DSM until 1980 and it was mostly being researched in Europe before then. There was a little patchy knowledge on autism in the 70s but more related to psychosis. I highly doubt there is any way your mother specialized in autism in the 70s when it was barely even know [/quote]
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