unclenutcracker wrote:
I'm fairly interested to see what happens with AS in relation to this basic human issue. Are we going to start seeing some "autistic nationalists" now that the diagnosis/knowledge-there-of is becoming more popular? Heh... fighting off the lowly NT hordes.
Oh, I think there already are autistic nationalists. and I don't think that I'm better because of being AS just as NT are not better because of being NT. it's just a forma de ser. (a way to be, among other ways.)
But I think bullying can be very distracting from one's actual education. Plus, from what I have heard, some AS people can learn more alone than in the classroom, and they should get that opportunity, as education and academia is what rescues many of us in adult life.
Oh by the way, I didn't mean to imply that homeschooling is only useful for AS people. I was homeschooled for academic and religious reasons, long before ever hearing about AS. Homeschooling has actually got a lot of positive applications, for many things that different kids might have going on in their lives.
But just like in regular school you have to teach the kids to think, not so much WHAT to think (although we should teach children good values, and to treat other people right), but HOW to think, so that they can figure out stuff for themselves and eventually have their own ideas.
BTW, I've been in both, and I felt much more brainwashed in public school than in homeschool. but that's another topic for another day.
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