had an interesting chat with an ai bot.

apparently if you have symptoms of what we now call “autism”, then in the 1950s you would have been diagnosed as “mentally retarded”, and in the 1880s they would have diagnosed it as “idiot” or “moron”

Seems their playbook is to continuously re-define things, so as to obfuscate their history and metrics, and they say the old diagnoses is “offense” so thats why they need a name change.

they are transitioning into calling it “intellectual disability” because, you know, autism is offensive to someone