liking and understanding the full personhood of someone whose brain works very differently from DS's has been important to him.
I think this is the foundation of accepting other people and living in harmony in the world generally, and it's wonderful that it is understood and appreciated at least by some. We actually tried this as a pitch to DD's old school when they were suggesting they were going to kick her out--that it benefitted the other kids to be around somebody who thought differently from themselves, especially since she's really not *that* different and she looks at things in unusual and often funny ways. After all, intellectual diversity or whatever you want to call it is I think a lot less scary to people than socioeconomic diversity but can also lead to acceptance of others. But nothing doing; they were just too stuck on the negatives. We're so grateful that some people do appreciate the differences and hope we can keep finding them, particularly in the educational system.
