Carole Mac
@HerbsandDirt
I was in elementary school in the 70’s.
My experience:
Did not know ONE autistic child.
No one had a gluten allergy.
No one had peanut allergies.
No one had milk allergies.
No one was bouncing off the walls from ADD or ADHD.
No one had autoimmune diseases at that age.
No inhalers on the playground.
Anyone else?
In the 50's most brought peanut butter and jelly sandwiches + a thermos of milk: no allergies. Spot on with the rest mentioned. Only got polio vaccine back then, (a neighbors kid got the shot: then got polio!) Foods: stored in glass jars, not plastic containers. Mercury thermometers, if one broke, we had to call special housekeeping team to clean it up it was considered too toxic to handle (now it's in vaccines, etc, "as a preservative!")
