In history you read about elves, fairies, little people, spirits. It was an accepted part of reality.
But now that’s obvious nonsense and if you see fairies then you need a doctor.
Are we insane now?
Yes I know, nutrition, literacy and the scientific enlightenment. But still.
The fey were made up as a way to ostracize people who were “weird” e.g. autistic people like myself. They weren’t REAL children, just weird puppets left by the weird forest people who stole our sweet, normal human baby!
No they weren’t. You’re just leveraging your fetish. Norse has a whole taxonomy. British Isles has a whole big thing. Moderns talking to machine elves even. The world is bigger etc.
Exactly what in my comment indicated a fetish?
A fetish for moaning about the woes of the neurodivergent. So intense that you begin to see it everywhere