No one was diagnosed with autism, ADHD etc when I was at school. The only person I remember who was special needs was a deaf boy who coped quite well in the classroom without an aide , just a small amount of extra attention. Has something in our environment caused all these children to appear? Is it connected with parenting, is it just that they had a lower profile and there was no diagnosis available ? Are we over diagnosing children and labelling them? I have worked with severely autistic young adults but they were very obviously in need of extra help. Not all who are diagnosed have visible issues, though.
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