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"Normal" means working a low-wage service sector job until the robots replace you. The last thing I want for my kid is normal.

Being a geek is only isolating if you can't find a strong community of other geeks (of all ages) and you're thrown into the typical prison-factory-like school system. Around here we have plenty of geek families, and they're disproportionately likely to go to unconventional schools or build their own educations piecemeal.

It will be wonderful when we can bring this kind of education to everyone and make it "normal". But I'm not about to wait around for that.