You spare the rod you spoil the child.
Parents overly protected the children and then they weren't ready for life, also social media and the internet have made people more introverts, which is alright.
But at the end of the day, humans are a social animal, and being social and being vocal and being interactive is the #1 way of venting and not letting trauma build up and overload you, and western society is losing that main method of venting and the trauma is building out and overloading people.
Plus over thinking, I mean look at kids and dogs, they're usually happy because they don't have to think.
Parents and schools protected the kids so they don't have to think, then they get in the real world and have decision overload as they have to make tons of decisions, instead of simply following the system.
Also, in past generations, they would get rid of the special people by putting them in homes or getting them out of the general public. So they were there, but maybe not seen as much, where today that's seen as bad, and they're more public with stuff now days.
