I dunno dude...maybe the light/functional autists who can still communicate with people about what they want and learn the skills, nobody in preindustrial era had time to deal with the severe autists who won't even respond to normal conversations, at best they'll be given minimum sustenance and left alone as the village idiots. nobody's going to wave various tools around just to see if there's something that interested them, you take on the jobs your father/family was already doing, chances are it's not going to be something the autists wanted to do
I dunno dude...maybe the light/functional autists who can still communicate with people about what they want and learn the skills, nobody in preindustrial era had time to deal with the severe autists who won't even respond to normal conversations, at best they'll be given minimum sustenance and left alone as the village idiots. nobody's going to wave various tools around just to see if there's something that interested them, you take on the jobs your father/family was already doing, chances are it's not going to be something the autists wanted to do
Well yeah, pre-industrial society committed a lot of infantcide on the weak.