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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because think about why someone would decide to homeschool their child. Probably because mainstream school didn’t work for their child- or, they knew ahead of time that it wouldn’t work. Because their child is different.

Or, because the parent has strong beliefs about what and how they would like their child to be taught, and the parent doesn’t care about social norms (one of them being to send your child to school). Think about how that type of parent might mold their child as their child spends every waking hour with their parent. This isn’t bad- but it’s different.

Or maybe neither of the above is true. But all of the other kids in the neighborhood go to school. They have a routine. They follow the same fads (or at least they’re aware of the fads). They spend all day talking to other kids, working with other kids, from a variety of different backgrounds (or, maybe not such a variety, but at least from a variety of different personalities and interests). Now imagine a kid who spends their day doing things differently, and who has WAY less practice interacting with a bunch of kids all day. And who is used to perhaps a more self guided approach to doing things. And who has it imprinted on them that they are different or special- because they don’t go to school and they know it and they’ve asked their parent why and their parent says, because this is better for YOU or better for OUR FAMILY despite it being different.  Do you think this child will fit in easily , immediately, in a summer camp or on a sports team? Get along with everyone, follow the crowd, not stick out?

Also these kids are good at interacting with adults because that’s what they tend to be doing all day and also a majority of them are on the spectrum in some way (be honest, guys). Those high functioning, 2E types of kids  often prefer conversations with adults. [/quote]

This is pretty accurate. Of course, none of this means that any given child is necessarily going to be a good person, or a bad person, or extraordinarily more motivated or intelligent, or poorly motivated, or not as bright. You care going to have a lot of outliers of all kinds, but they are more likely to be "different" kids because they are taking a different path than the norm for the community.

Some of those differences make them better or worse people, but for the most part, whether or not you are a good person isn't necessarily tied to whether you have autistic traits, or are great at sports, or have strong political opinions. Kids can be different than the norm and be good people or not. Hopefully none of us need to put others down to feel good about ourselves. [/quote]

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