hmmm.. when we were toddlers, we were TOLD by our parents to look our elders (and our peers) in the eye...even after being contrite for misbehaving. If we didn’t, we got a smack. Very few autistics in the 50s and 60s. I fear the lack of social skills due to poor parenting often gets misdiagnosed in this day of “everything is a syndrome” as spectrum autism or aspie. JMO.
Agreed.