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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course. 8 year olds (neurotypical with atleast an average IQ) are perfectly capable of staying home alone for an hour or two, let alone 15 minutes. My stepdaughter wasn’t the most mature 8 year old, but she handled an hour before school and an hour after school at that age.[/quote] Totally agree. I have a child with profound intellectual disability. If some gene therapy comes along that allows her to function like a neurotypical 8 year old, she would live on her own with some light supervision, take a bus and have a job. Nothing has been as enlightening as to the infantilization of typical children as having a child who literally cannot grow up.[/quote]
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