Published on 12, July, 2020
I've borrowed this question from something intimated in another thread.
Do you think life has improved for you as you have grown older?
Is it because society has changed or you/your life have changed or a combination?
There was a comparison in another thread with 1980.
I realise some of the readers here won't even have been born then!
I could write a long list of ways in which my life has improved since 1980, both on a personal level and on a 'society' level.
Where 'society' is concerned, the invention of the internet has made me much less isolated, much more knowledgeable, much more in control of my health and not at the mercy of the NHS.
I wouldn't know about my autism and many other things without it.
Also, mobile phones/texting and email mean that I no longer have to make phone calls (including from phone boxes!).
I could go on but I might even bore myself.
There is really very little I miss about 1980, except perhaps a quieter pace of life in general.
It's an interesting question and we all have a past, no matter how far back it goes.
How is it for you.
Better or worse?
Personally, better, because I now know that there's no point in beating myself up about what can't be fixed.
When I was young I felt I was racing against time to learn how to be normal before my life slipped away. Thank goodness I survived that phase.
On the social side, increased awareness of autism has at least given us an explanation of why we are what we are. Whether neurotypical people have got any more or less sympathetic, I can't say.
Most of them should get more understanding with more knowledge. If you know, you understand. Autism is a very complex thing to understand for the less intelligent though.