I read a lot of Pierre Loti books, on rural Brittany pre-industrialization, i can totally understand how non functioning autistic children would die between the

I read a lot of Pierre Loti books, on rural Brittany pre-industrialization, i can totally understand how non functioning autistic children would die between the age of two to ten more easily than Asperger or non autistic children. In fact, any dyspraxic child in a coastal village would likely drown at a certain point.