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Re:Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Kno... by asjw on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @03:18AM (#21122789)
> how autism is dealt with

Stallman was born 67 years a go.

Autism wasn't even a thing.

Until the 1980 it was diagnosed as schizophrenia and only in 1987 a checklist for diagnosing it was proposed

Anyway, not caring too much about other people's feelings when people don't care too much about your medical condition is perfectly acceptable

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Re:Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Kno... by anoncake on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @08:06AM (#21124375)
> Autism wasn't even a thing.

Just like in the middle ages, there was only a single illness that caused fever (aptly named "fever"). More advanced illnesses required bacteria and viruses which were not invented until 1676 respectively 1892.

I wonder how genetic disorders worked back then considering genes didn't exist yet.

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