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Autism is a modern term and concept and only in the last 15 years or so has been really considered a condition. Medicine in the middle ages was mainly based on superstition and anyone who was autistic would/could have been considered possessed or a witch. If we could go back and analyze the behaviors of many people who were accused of witchcraft my guess is that many would have been autistic or mentally disabled. Historians have been able to look at later witch trials in Salem, Mass and found that the people accused were considered "different". Even today we do not know what causes autism and are still struggling to educate and help those who suffer from it. So, in the middle ages they would have not known what to do with people with disablitlites or how to help them.
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∙ 12y agoBack in Medieval times, aspergers was not discovered so many people with AS back then were probably treated like everyone else. Most people who visited a doctor (apothocary back then) seeked cures for headaches and other bodily illnesses.
Besides this, if the AS was severe than the individual would have been seen as odd and strange. This in turn may cause them to be targeted by others. In most cases people with AS learn to mimic others and go unnoticed.
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Executioners. (And the correct question should be "What were the people who beheaded others in medieval times called?").
Who lived in a medieval house?
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Who lived in medieval house?
medieval people from the medieval times obviously i mean who else is gonna live there me
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