To think no one was allergic to nuts in the 1970's or kids had that ADHT or whatever it is

[ipodmama]

I don,t remember anyone with these 'problems' , I only remember the odd smelly kid?

lol at "odd smelly kid".

I don't recall lots with asthma or hayfever either - though when I think back there were a few most likely ASD - and sadly undiagnosed....

DH was a child in the 60s, and he is most suspicious about allergies and food intolerances - ie they are figments of parents' imaginations....He was most put out when dd was diagnosed with hayfever, and an allergic reaction to strawberries....

Actually I had evil hayfever in the 70's and 80's. I have to warn you that these threads rarely end happily. You seem to be implying that allergies and things like ADHT are based in peoples imaginations only which I'm fairly sure isn't the case.

My dp is allergic to nuts and was in the navy by the seventies, so, it was out there.

There HAS been a massive rise is allergies (inc astham and hayfever ) probably due to pollutants and other environmental factors.

I am nto sure if there has been a rise in ADHD, or even ASD, but luckily for those who need help (not that I am for over diagnosing etc) more cases are being spotted thus more kids are being helped (we hope)

Possibly you don't remember or weren't aware because you were a kid yourself???

"odd smelly kid"

I totally agree ipodmama with regard to ADHD. It seems that children can't just be naughty kids anymore or that their parents couldn't discipline them. It has to be labelled. On a slightly different note, I don't remember dyslexia being around in the 70's. I was poor at maths. Does that have a name nowadays?

Odd smelly kids were usually victims of neglect.

That was probably me! We only got one bath a week!

If you think they are 'problems' in inverted commas, does that mean you think nut allergies and ADHD don't exist? Because that would be unreasonable.

ipodmama, what is your point exactly? Sounds like you have just lit the fuse and left the room...come back and explain yourself please.

It's true though that there was one girl with hayfever in my grammar school of 600.

One or two smelly kids in primary, one boy officially described as 'backwards' who couldn't read much at age 11. He was a tearful boy and teachers might say something like 'He can't help xxxxx he's backward.' He was left out of games but not really teased at all.
There were a few cheeky boys at primary but no one had ADHD but then we did have the cane and the slipper.

Looking back, there wre plenty of kids with ADHD/aspergers, but it was sadly not diagnosed. They were just labelled the nutty kids and punished severely. Isn't it better nowadays that these kids are diagnosed and treated with a bit of empathy? Rather than just left to flouder like they did in teh bad old days.

I cannot remember anyone with allergies, but loads of kids had severe exzema (sp?) and asthma.

We had one (ADHD) in our class. He didn't have a diagnosis or a label, but looking back on it now he seemed pretty textbook from what I know of the condition. He went to jail for a while. If he'd had a diagnosis and some help and support, that might not have happened.

There was plenty of asthma too - always someone with an inhaler here and there.

I'd never really come across the nut allergy thing but there was a bee-sting allergy person who had an epipen or some kind of injection thing I think it was

I was born in the 70s and had asthma, so did one of my brothers. All 4 of us had hayfever and I also had eczema. Both my parents had asthma (they were born in the 30s and 40s). My FIL, who was born in the 30s, has been asthmatic since childhood and so has his sister. My great grandfather died of an asthma attack in 1929. So it was certainly out there!

I think there has been an increase in allergies, and there is also probably better diagnosis and treatment.

My friends brother was diagnosed with dyslexia in the early eighties. DH had hay fever as a child.

You are talking out of your arses and the next logical step in your retro musings on childcare will be to put folks with downs syndrome back into institutions so we don't have to look at them.

Sadly, I think children who had very severe allergies just died. I certainly remember that it wasn't unknown for children to die suddenly from unknown causes back then.

I did have several friends who were quite severely allergic to things back then and had to be careful, although fortunately they didn't have an anapylactic (sp?) reaction.

There were definitely kids with ADHD back then, they were called the 'naughty' ones.

The 'smelly' kids were called fleabags. They were the kids from poor backgrounds who evidently didn't have any change of clothes/had raggedy shoes/low standards of personal hygiene. School must have been a bloody torment for those poor sods.

I look back and I feel very sad about the two kids in (what would have been year 2) my class which were regarded as 'backwards'. They were sat on the 'thick kids' table (called the Owls) and were spoken to like shit by the teacher. May you rot, Mrs Rolfe.

I grew up in the 70s with an allergy - and while it was hard, I imagine it was even harder for my father growing up in the 50s with it!

My daughter has ASD. It's fairly obvious some family members (going back 2 generations) would have been diagnosed with it too.

You can think what you like, but you're wrong!

YABU

So sod looking back on the 80s with rose tinted glasses.

Things are far better now.

I remember plenty of kids with excema and loads with warts . Looking back there are children who were different who obviously had ASD, but were just labelled odd or bad.

I only had one bath a week also, in washing up liquid

my DH has had to sit inside with the windows closed and curtains drawn because he suffered from hayfever so badly! in the seventies...

The reason there were no kids with nut allergies was because they had all died as toddlers. Their parents in all likelihood thought they had choked.

Kids with ADHD got beaten by the teacher, finally expelled and ended up in prison.

I am sorry that we no longer live in the utopia you clearly miss so much.

YAAM

(You Are A Moron)

"There were a few cheeky boys at primary but no one had ADHD but then we did have the cane and the slipper. "

I don't think ADHD can be prevented by the use of corporal punishment.