Nice to meet you AuAL. Yes, your right, about it not being a thing in days gone by. When I was young, the only thing that kept me out of an institution was my mother. I was seen as retarded. Slow. People just didn't know what we know today. The way to change behavior in those days was corporal punishments. Forth grade was the worst. I spent that grade getting paddled by Mrs. Browning for being disruptive, slow, not listening, interruption, not paying attention, and "being funny". She had a paddle just for me and insisted that I sign it every time she used it on me. Lol. I never did figure out what that lady had against me. Then. In those days, if you were "disciplined" in school and your dad found out, you were also "disciplined" at home. Mercilessly - especially when the report card came home. Boy! Those were the days. My mother would not let me fail. She insisted that I be just as normal as all the other kids. As a freshman in high school, I was sent to the grade school to tutor other "retarded" kids in reading. That was fun. I got through it all, and to my surprise discovered that I was gifted at nothing much but coding computer automation. What we now call AI. I wrote wonderful applications for very large corporations (mckesson, citibank, american express, safeway, American Stores, common spirit health) to use computers to manage all the other computers in large data centers. That was my career, and I was good at that, winning several technology awards. I never have figured out people, nor the minutia of everyday life, but I like being retired and gardening, and I'm loving the AI revolution.
