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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you spent time with homeschool kids?

And, are you going to home-employ DC too? [b]Learning to deal with uncomfortable environments is a life skill. [/b]If your snowplow your kid to adulthood, don’t be surprised when they can’t deal in college, workplace, life. [/quote]

This is a silly argument.

I’m on the spectrum and I heard this my entire life. Yet as adult I’ve built a successful life that pretty much avoids all the uncomfortable and sensory triggers that everyone told me I needed to “learn” to deal with. I have a masters, I work in data analytics, I live in a nice house, I’m married and I have kids.

I never have to do the adult equivalent of navigating a school cafeteria, dance or football game. [/quote]

OP here-I meant to thank you for your perspective as an autistic person, a person with autism. [/quote]

If you read the books by Temple Grandin she’s pretty adamant about not over-accomodating kids.

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2018/11/30/grandin-rejects-low-expectations-insists-workforce-critically-needs-people-with-autism-in-vanderbilt-lecture/[/quote]

Temple Grandin is great, but she is one person with autism. There are many voices in the autistic community, and they do not all agree with her.[/quote]

Well that’s kind of the point isn’t it?

And I think she’s right though. Research shows that kids on the spectrum with normal/high IQ face difficulties later in life specifically because their daily living skills falter compared to NT kids. We need to be getting our kids out into the world, not shielding them. [/quote]

Parents need to do what is best for their child.  There is no once size fits all.[/quote]

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