I mean, I wouldn’t normally criticise a shitpost for engendering wrong and possibly harmful ideas about the nature of neurodivergence (and sexuality, gender, and all the rest) by implying that it’s possible to determine them by reading some ancient writing. For the simple reason that it’s usually just a laugh and most people won’t take it seriously.
But this goes beyond that. In addition to not having the slightest clue what may have affected him, we don’t have the slightest clue how he was “cured” unless the text goes further into it. Maybe the doctor made him eat a boiled frog and dance clockwise around a rowan tree while reciting lyric poetry in a Cretan accent. People get obsessions and then abandon them all the time, so it’s not like some legitimate therapy must have occurred.
No-one here believes that the Greeks possessed some magic way of curing autism.
I mean, I wouldn’t normally criticise a shitpost for engendering wrong and possibly harmful ideas about the nature of neurodivergence (and sexuality, gender, and all the rest) by implying that it’s possible to determine them by reading some ancient writing. For the simple reason that it’s usually just a laugh and most people won’t take it seriously.
But this goes beyond that. In addition to not having the slightest clue what may have affected him, we don’t have the slightest clue how he was “cured” unless the text goes further into it. Maybe the doctor made him eat a boiled frog and dance clockwise around a rowan tree while reciting lyric poetry in a Cretan accent. People get obsessions and then abandon them all the time, so it’s not like some legitimate therapy must have occurred.
No-one here believes that the Greeks possessed some magic way of curing autism.