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?
UK here.
I knew one lass in our whole school of over a thousand pupils who had a slight asthma problem, and could only run short races in our sports classes.
Apart from that, nothing, no allergies, nowt.
And kids weren't fat.