Stigma and mental health

To be honest, my generation is the one where we began to pathologise children, and I think that those scars are unlikely to resolve themselves. Like, no offence, but a lot of mental disorders don't really happen in childhood. It's like the worst possible version of treating kids as the adults they might be, rather than the kids that they are. - Why wasn't I diagnosed with ASD? I dunno, probably because my empathy skills have always been obvious. Plus I'm emotional. Basically, the feeling was that I was very gifted and that the strain of doing adult skills when I was still young was making me socially awkward with peers of a similar age. In high school, there was probably an awareness that I was gender diverse, but that was long before it became cool and acceptable. University often struck me as hide-bound, and probably more conservative than high school.