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.
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