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Originally Posted by Sly
These guys also forget the cultural differences and even life expectancy differences between today and 50 years ago.
50 years ago, nobody wanted the world to know that their child had "problems." It was kept secret. And on top of that, a lot of children that are alive today would have never lived 50 years ago, due to modern medicine. I am 30 and I know that if the medicine I needed when I was a baby wasn't around at that time, I would never be here.
Comparing stats today and 50 years ago is very rough at best.
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I agree completely. When I was a kid (I'm 42 now) if a family had a mentally handicapped kid it was almost like a big secret. They kept it to themselves. There was one kid I went to high school with who was bad enough off he was very hard to understand, but he went to school (special needs classes) and made friends and tried to live a normal life. Many people in the town I grew up in thought it was terrible that his family let him out like that. It was crazy.
Now with social media everyone knows everything about everyone and it is much more common knowledge.