A Neurodivergent Rebel's Ramblings
Health & Fitness:Mental Health
S1, E62: Where are the Missing Generation of Autistic & NeuroDivergent Adults?
The missing generation is Autistic/NeuroDivergent adults, typically growing up in the 1980s or earlier, who were not discovered to be NeuroDivergent as children (because of diagnostic limitations of the time).
Autism was not even in the DSM until 1980. So prior to 1980, Autistic People weren’t even listed in the diagnostic manual. That generation, and generations prior grew up when understanding was very limited, leaving generations of Autistic People undiscovered, or missed.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://neurodivergentrebel.com/2022/02/02/where-are-the-missing-generation-of-autistic-neurodivergent-adults/
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