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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a foreigner who hails from two different countries (one in western Europe, one in East Asia) and apparently I understand the dynamics a whole lot better than you, OP.

It's because other countries hide their people with severe disabilities and do not have the societal knowledge and financial resources to cater to the mildly-affected. There is a lot of bullying and ostracizing.

The public schools elsewhere aren't set up to welcome severely disabled kids, so you don't meet them at school. Families hide them away in their homes, or place them in institutions.

Mild diagnoses don't tend to be recognized, so you see kids with high-functioning autism, or mild ADHD, or mild anxiety/depression and society does not categorize them as such. The hyperactive kids are labeled as bad kids who do bad things, the HFA are the bullied odd ducks, and the daydreaming/slow inattentive kids are lazy and stupid.

I lived this. I did not want my ADHD/HFA son to live this too, so I did my utmost to stay in the US, where he had mind-boggling accommodations, compared to what he'd have received in my native country's public schools, a developed country in western Europe. Now he's in college, thanks to years of accommodations.

I have researched special needs and school accommodations in Europe and East Asia (I have close relatives in both regions). The proportion of neurodivergence is the same across the world. The number of diagnoses in other countries is much lower. The way non-US societies treat differently-brained people is not at all as accepting as American society.

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