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"people who grew up before 1980 (and especially before 1970 or 1960) would not likely be screened as autistic, and instead could be treated as a "terrible, strange, misbehaved child" with resulting parental neglect and abuse (raises hand)"

This describes my situation as well. Every day, my mother would look at me with disgust and snarl, "There is something REALLY WRONG with you"... but not enough to seek help, not enough to interrupt cocktail hour.

My family still doesn't *really* believe that autism is "a thing".

I always wonder how they would have handled it if I'd had a visible disability.