>But I god damn well know we've shifted timelines.
I believe we have as well.
My daughter and I often talk about a book series she read <autist before it had a label>
She was in 3rd or 4th grade. It was impossible to have read the series because it hadn't been published at that time, the book series came out when she was early 20s.
I had asked her "Why" are they saying it's new when she read the whole series and I told her some highlights I remembered her telling me about. She looked at me like her brains spinning diode froze. Then said, I don't remember that. My daughter has a photographic mind, how does she NOT recall something that was integral in her growing years.
Long point but my point is, I remember clearly and since reading the Marvellous underground journey, I've looked at the whole situation differently.