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I'd live to the ripe old age of died during childbirth (lemmy.world)
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[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 months ago

nah, medieval europeans (that's a very very very broad terms, just so we're aware) seem to have mostly just viewed noticably neurodivergent people as "mentally challenged" and infantilized them more than anything.

Apparently there was also a good chance that if you were autistic and decent at communicating, you could be taken on as a court jester and given quite free reign to criticize powerful people, because as it turns out having someone who isn't a yes-man is pretty useful when you're a ruler who wants their nation to not collapse under them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f848ejfAFNM

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