"autism didn't exist back in my day"

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dude was an absolute character

In between those events, he won 22 games for the Philadelphia Athletics; […] toured the nation in a melodrama called The Stain of Guilt; courted, married, and became separated from May Wynne Skinner of Lynn, Massachusetts; saved a woman from drowning; accidentally shot a friend through the hand; and was bitten by a lion."[8] His performance in The Stain of Guilt was notable in that his co-stars, who had realized that he was incapable of memorizing his lines, allowed him to improvise his lines for every show; the play was critically acclaimed and was much discussed for a scene in which Waddell lifted the actor playing the villain and threw him across the stage with ease.

the wikipedia just RANDOMLY DROPPED that he was bitten by a LION with no context?!?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Waddell

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QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

While in spring training with the Millers, Waddell helped save the city of Hickman, Kentucky, from a devastating flood in the spring of 1912.[15] Catching pneumonia, he lost much of the vitality that had sustained him, and a second flood in Hickman and another ensuing case of pneumonia in 1913 took the rest

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- QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  Waddell’s increasingly erratic behavior included an incident in which he got into a fistfight on a cross-country train after making fun of a teammate’s straw hat.
  
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  - QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    Recent commentators such as Bill James have suggested that Waddell suffered from a developmental disability, mental retardation, autism, or attention deficit disorder (ADD). Not much was known about these mental conditions, or their diagnoses, at the time.
    
    the man who chased firetrucks during a major league baseball game has autism?! shocked I tell you
    
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  - alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    mf was too based for the turn of the 20th century
    
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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Grandpa: I don’t have autism wtf are you talking about

Also Grandpa: I’ve meticulously organized my workshop and have a massive array of jars with lids fastened to the bottom side of my shelves; they are organized, in order, according to type, outer diameter, inner diameter, and finally, metallurgy.

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- Soup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It’s good to be orgranized and it ain’t no flex to not be BUT it’s the passion that really seal the deal here. It’s like how I don’t manage my cables simply because I like to be neat but more that I manage them because if they aren’t organized I cannot function at full capacity just knowing that things are a mess.
  
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  - gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Gotta rizz ‘em with the ‘tism
    
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- TheDoozer@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I work in helicopter maintenance, so reading this I was thinking, “yeah, and?”
  
  It makes any task so much faster when you know exactly where the thing you need is.
  
  The metallurgy is important, too, because different things corrode at different rates, and in contact with different metals.
  
  Incidentally, that part in Big Hero 6 when Wasabi has his tools lined out, with every part and tool accounted for, I thought his shop area was well maintained and appropriate, especially working with such dangerous technology. Then they tried to portray him as mildly OCD or something, and I just thought everyone else was wrong. And Go-Go just grabbing a tool without checking it out was completely inappropriate and poor tool control.
  
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  - SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Oh buddy have you seen the hangar safety video? It’s long but I don’t regret watching it. I’ll set the link to the part you mentioned.
    
    youtu.be/3Gr1MP_Wtdo&t=8m1s
    
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- QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  my grandpa obsessed over fishing, TV sports, and Volkswagen beetles, every year for Christmas I would get him a little beetle figurine. he was
  
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karashta@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
They’ll say this and then not remember that dude who cataloged like a thousand types of fern or some shit in his life.

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- Rednax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I once visited a museum in Split where they had the lifework of a guy on display: dozens of scenes filled with taxidermy frogs going about their human like lives.
  
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Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

he played for 13 years, with the Louisville Colonels, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Chicago Orphans They had some weird team names back in the day, at least this one isn’t a slur though

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- DylanMc6@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  i think the washington commanders should’ve went with “washington rich snobs”
  
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- captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yeah how the hell do you engage in swashbuckling in Pittsburgh‽
  
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  - frog@feddit.uk ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    In an official complaint, an AA official claimed the Alleghenys’ signing of Bierbauer was “piratical”.[12] This incident quickly accelerated into a schism between the leagues that contributed to the demise of the A.A. Although the Alleghenys were never found guilty of wrongdoing, their allegedly “piratical” act gained them the occasional nickname “Pirates” from newspapers around the country, starting in 1891. Within a few years, the nickname caught on with even Pittsburgh newspapers.[13] The nickname was first acknowledged on the team’s uniforms in 1912.
    
    Source: Wikipedia
    
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- chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  They’ve changed their name since. Now they’re the Chicago Cubs
  
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  - driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    They should go back.
    
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melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
In elementary school we never heard of autism, and this was way before Talwin and Ritalin came on the scene, but we had something called “Mrs. Dooley’s Class”.

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EvilBit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Highly recommended podcast episode about it.

archive.org/details/The.Dollop.Ep12.The.Rube

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- zqwzzle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Was going to recommend the dollop episode on him if it wasn’t already.
  
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- mimreos@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Absolutely, came here looking for this. Great episode.
  
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Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I hope he got a puppy :(

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DempstersBox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Sounds like a fuckin banger of an existence

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- SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  He lived to the ripe old age of 37
  
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  - Lemmynated@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    As someone who recently turned 38, I am envious.
    
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DylanMc6@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
“decidedly different” should’ve been the euphemism for autistic people years ago. seriously!

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y0kai@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
well i am not a baseball fan and am usually very bad at picking “favorites” but this is an easy “favorite basball player” if anyone asks me from now on.

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DylanMc6@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
there are autistic people in the 20th century, and my Mom, my older sibling and i actually have autism. seriously.

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- QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  “autism didn’t exist back when I was little” -my mom who is autistic. Daughter of my grandpa, who is also autistic
  
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RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Turns out that folks with BPD can be geniuses at things to.

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neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The dollop made an excellent episode on this guy: The Rube

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umbrellacloud@leminal.space ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
wow

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