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[–]FreakyFalangistNational Catholicism 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Call me a bleeding heart, but I think if we stopped giving tons of welfare benefits to people that actually have the ability to better themselves the issue of providing for people who are actually disadvantaged by virtue of their birth would be moot.

In totality these people are still a vast minority of the population.

Also, not denying that someone can have a legitimate mental handicap, but I speculate that a lot of "Autism" (now on a wide spectrum) is caused by the social dysfunctions inherent to modernity and incredibly poor parenting/family structures which have become the norm.

[–]Fonched 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

How is autism just a symptom of today's society, like how does a child buckle to bad parenting and the problems of the world around them? I'm not really sure what peoples' thoughts on the disorder here really are, especially consiering the "acceptance" narrative going on now.

[–]FreakyFalangistNational Catholicism 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Children are being exposed to technology at increasingly younger ages. Suicide rates have gone up among the young, social media usage and screen time have a direct correlation on reported happiness/suicidal thoughts. It's not a far stretch to think that behavioral issues that effect social interaction are also being caused by this.

If you want some depressing reads go on r/teachers and read some posts, even the most liberal of public school teachers sound like luddites the way they talk about how many of their kids are lacking in fine motor skills and displaying anti-social behaviors in elementary school.