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... or ADHD, or food allergies, or anxiety disorders, or homosexuality, or any of other crap our children are plagued with.

After seven months on pregnancy forums, I’ve determined this is a big fat lie.

Women today are taking all kinds of shit during pregnancy. Heartburn meds, extra vaccinations, popping Tylenol like it’s candy, high dose progesterone supplements. Oh, and that doesn’t include all the drugs that are taken these days to just get pregnant, like the massive amounts of hormones you use during IVF or IUI treatments, or Clomid to increase ovulation. Drinking during pregnancy is becoming more acceptable (because one bitch wrote a book), and apparently smoking weed your entire pregnancy is no big deal either. Most psychiatric drugs are cleared for use during pregnancy as well.

This is on top of all the birth control, drinking, bad eating habits, obesity, and anxiety meds women are on for most of their lives.

But no, nothing in the modern world causes autism. You constantly freaking out about your mother in law’s innocent bullshit, or your high stress job, or your advanced maternal age, won’t affect your baby at all. Nothing causes problems!

... or ADHD, or food allergies, or anxiety disorders, or homosexuality, or any of other crap our children are plagued with. After seven months on pregnancy forums, I’ve determined this is a big fat lie. Women today are taking all kinds of shit during pregnancy. Heartburn meds, extra vaccinations, popping Tylenol like it’s candy, high dose progesterone supplements. Oh, and that doesn’t include all the drugs that are taken these days to just get pregnant, like the massive amounts of hormones you use during IVF or IUI treatments, or Clomid to increase ovulation. Drinking during pregnancy is becoming more acceptable (because one bitch wrote a book), and apparently smoking weed your entire pregnancy is no big deal either. Most psychiatric drugs are cleared for use during pregnancy as well. This is on top of all the birth control, drinking, bad eating habits, obesity, and anxiety meds women are on for most of their lives. But no, nothing in the modern world causes autism. You constantly freaking out about your mother in law’s innocent bullshit, or your high stress job, or your advanced maternal age, won’t affect your baby at all. Nothing causes problems!

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[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

Yeah, I don’t think modern women really understand that the social rules of the past weren’t nearly as restrictive as they imagine.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Life may have been more physically demanding, but there was also a clear cut social structure to fall back on. In and of itself, that could be construed as a support system. The overwhelming majority of men wouldn’t let a lady stand on a bus or train, be harassed by other men, or be cold outside. Nowadays it’s just women running through life at full speed, eyes closed with their middle finger in the air as they crash and burn.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Our society has reframed rules and heirarchy as oppressive. From a young age, children are conditioned with stories where a misunderstood hero outsider is ganged up on by bullies for no reason. I realized this the other day with a story about wolf-sayers/witches being publicly executed in Bavaria back in the day. The story is cast as the witch being misunderstood and the mob is just crazy and backward. But people don't kill others and put their bodies on display for no good reason. Maybe the village had a problem with witches, but we're not allowed to know that anymore. So antisocial behavior gets transformed into "differences" that moved from tolerance to celebration.