Right do you think that in 1975 somewhere someone some student in an elementary school may have told their teacher they were a cat and meowed?
You think it made international news and politicians address the problem in their campaigns?
Some of these things are just things that happened, they're not significant and they're not tied to some kind of social decline.
People need to decouple from these culture War campaigns and just be real.
We had a kid who thought he was a seagull. Every day he would get off the bus and run into the field, flapping his arms, to be with his shithawk kind. This was before the world was “woke”, and yet, he was left alone.