No One Was Autistic Gluten Intolerant or Transgender In The 80s meme depicting a response to the post.

No One Was Autistic, Gluten Intolerant or Transgender In The 80s

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No One Was Autistic, Gluten Intolerant or Transgender In the '80s or There Were No Autistic People In the '80s refers to a viral post by X / Twitter user @MilaLovesJoe reading, "Remember the 1970s and 1980s when no one was autistic, gluten intolerant, or transgender. So what happened?" The post was made in early September 2024 and was met with significant backlash online, inspiring users to share examples of autistic and transgender people who were prominent in the 1970s and 1980s. It also inspired memes, including posts sharing ironic examples of autistic people from the given decades.

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On September 1st, 2024, X[1] user @MilaLovesJoe posted, "Remember the 1970s and 1980s when no one was autistic, gluten intolerant, or transgender. So what happened?" garnering over 74,000 likes and 10,000 reposts in five days.


Mila Joy ❤ @MilaLovesJoe Remember the 1970s and 1980s when no one was autistic, gluten intolerant, or transgender. So what happened? 5:32 PM - Sep 1, 2024 25.9M Views

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The post gained significant backlash over the following days from people insisting that autistic, gluten intolerant and transgender people existed prior to the 1970s and 1980s and that awareness of these people has simply increased over the years.

For example, on September 2nd, 2024, X[2] user @_AnonHater_ commented, "Autism has been medically recognized since the 40s, the term Transgender was coined in the 60s and gluten intolerance/celiac since the 50s you absolute knob," garnering over 14,000 likes in four days.

On the same day, X[3] user @realKellyKnight made a comment claiming they were diagnosed with autism in 1958, the year he was born, writing, "Just because we didn’t call it what we do today does not mean it didn’t exist then," garnering over 19,000 likes in four days.


Kelly → @realKellyKnight This is not actually true. I am autistic, and have been since 1958, the year I was born. It's just that we did not know to call someone autistic by that name. If you went to school in the 60's or 70's, you probably knew someone who seemed antsy all the time, couldn't sit still, talked a lot, had a bad memory on some things but did really well in math, could repeat back something he just read, didn't fit in socially, was awkward with the opposite sex. The list goes on, and each of these are symptoms of someone living somewhere along the autism spectrum. Just because we didn't call it what we do today does not mean it didn't exist then. Sheesh. 12:26 AM Sep 2, 2024 - 553.6K Views

On September 3rd, X[4] user @ink0wright posted a photo of David Byrne from the band Talking Heads, who has claimed to be on the autism spectrum in the past,[5] garnering over 62,000 likes in three days. On the same day, X[6] user @MossAnimation posted images of Willy Wonka, Ariel from The Little Mermaid, Charlotte from Charlotte's Web and Egon from Ghostbusters in response to the post, garnering over 8,000 likes in the same span of time.


Im taking commissions @MossAnimation "No one was autistic in the 70s and 80s" AHEM NELER Mila Joy @MilaLovesJoe - Sep 1 Remember the 1970s and 1980s when no one was autistic, gluten intolerant, or transgender. So what happened?

On September 4th, 2024, X[7] user @ManthaMoment posted a clip of Kate Bush from the music video for "Babooshka" in response to the post, garnering over 117,000 likes in two days. On the same day, X[8] user @DylanTweetin posted a photograph of Lou Reed kissing Rachel Humphreys, a transgender woman, in the '70s, garnering over 140,000 likes in the same span of time.


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layne team future... @ink0wright "no one was autistic in the 80s" LMA00000000000000 Mila Joy @MilaLovesJoe - Sep 1 Remember the 1970s and 1980s when no one was autistic, gluten intolerant, or transgender. So what happened? Alejo @Kobeni_gaming Everyone waiting for autism, gluten intolerance, and the lgbtq to drop in the 1990s: Mila Joy @MilaLovesJoe - Sep 1 Remember the 1970s and 1980s when no one was autistic, gluten intolerant, or transgender. So what happened? dylan @DylanTweetin Lou Reed & his trans girlfriend Rachel Humphreys in the mid 70s Mila Joy @MilaLovesJoe Sep 1 Remember the 1970s and 1980s when no one was autistic, gluten intolerant, or transgender. So what happened? Mr. Floyd @Its_Mr_Floyd Yeah cool, anyways here's transgender composer Wendy Carlos who did the soundtracks for Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Tron Mila Joy @MilaLovesJoe Sep 1 Remember the 1970s and 1980s when no one was autistic, gluten intolerant, or transgender. turtlerancher66 NAFO @turtlerancher66 Remember back in the 1940s and 50s when a cross dressing rabbit could make Elmer Fudd's hunter cap pitch a tent? 1:24 AM - Sep 5, 2024 8,055 Views apophene ✔ @iamzheanna Celiac is one of the oldest known diseases in human history. Trans people did exist before those times (see pics). You're a f------ clown. 4:46 PM - Sep 2, 2024 222.5K Views gettyimages

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Nox Lucis
Nox Lucis

Damn kids these days and their mental health needs. Back in my day if I'd have complained about "Wah, Father, I just feel sad all the time. I'm struggling to see the point in living." he would have taught me how to tie a proper noose. Kids used to be involuntarily committed and lobotomized all the time, and that's how we liked it. After all, if God had wanted kids with autism to live, then why is it that every time I see one I get the urge to stab the little shit through the eye with an ice pick and the wiggle it all around until the soul flees its mortal form, leaving behind what can best be described as an animate corpse?
Checkmate, liberals.

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Cordelius
Cordelius

Its still crazy how a certain, noteworthy extent of the population of America still believes mental disorders like autism and depression aren't actually real. Like, we were still putting these people in pro-abuse institutions as far back the 2010s.

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