Comment by ang_cire

> understanding of various areas increased due to the stopping of this practice

Yes, this absolutely. You can't study something after altering it.

The "treatments" for people with any kind of neurodivergence (real, or imagined) in the past were often interventions that destroyed enough of their brain or body to prevent them from exhibiting any neurodivergent symptoms (e.g. lobotomy, EST/ECT, teeth-pulling[1], etc).

[1]: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/01/henry-cotton-psychiatr...