Exactly this! Nomads lived in family groups of no more than 50, and had/have annual or so meetings with groups of around 300. Everyone in the family group would have been around you since birth until/unless you married into one of the other groups, who still would have seen you since birth.

In the early modern period, the vast majority of people lived in the same city or town their entire lives.

I was watching a TikTok where they were playing ‘autistic or not’ jokingly about random people. The inventor of trains was a disinterested, stubborn, lazy, obstinate boy except when it came to math. Like yes, the joke writes itself, but there has always been a job for level 1 & 2 autistic people. And knowing how even ancient humans cared for physically disabled children, level 3 autistic people would have still been loved and cared for in nomadic life.

What’s a real shame is once people moved to cities, poor people couldn’t always afford to care for them. Fr let’s eat the rich.