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?
Grew up in the 60-70s
We had one boy who died of cancer and a girl who only attended classes a few times. She had a condition where her body was covered with hair. Poor girl, too strange.
And that was in a class numbering a total of 30 children!
In a Northeast rural-suburban area
Never thought much about it until now.
There were also students who may have been diagnosed as on the autism spectrum, but they were just considered overly shy, extremely so.
One student was definitely ADHD but it wasn't diagnosed back then.
The tecaher placed his desk in the front of the room, right next to the teacher's desk and that made the kid behave.
