| > You seem to have beef with the entire school system. It's not just the school system. It's the entire way adults treat children (and, to a lesser extent, the way adults treat adults). Ever wondered why autistic adults rarely have “tantrums” in (say) an office environment? There's the “older and more experienced”, sure, but they're allowed to have boundaries – something that most adults deny to most children. People (usually) afford adults the basic decency they would afford another person, and suddenly the disability is less severe. Funny, that. > which may be true, but it extremely unhelpful and a pipe dream. We can change society. We should. > but we've been a social species with complex social interactions for over 20 kiloyears That's not what I'm suggesting should change. Rather, we should change some pretty minor aspects of those interactions, if your standard is “having complex social interactions at all”. This is stuff like making computers have audio-only interfaces, or making it possible for wheelchair-users to get on trains on their own. Small things, all things considered. |