re: Trans community, early experiences
And when some of these kids ended up brilliant musicians and stage performers and started dressing up in Women's clothes and so forth, well, Duh, the damn Elves got them as a kid, remember? Gave the boy a big drink of their milk and honey and made him a Changeling.
Oh, hey, wait, that sounds an awful lot like autism to me. Lot less common before we started Vaping Lead as a society as a fun social experiment in the 40s-70s.