Novel way to improve autism tolerance

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Nothing wrong with a mentor per se, but surely just increasing the general awareness and level of education about AS and autism would have a similar, and much broader and far reaching effect? I seem to recall large numbers of children supporting, defending, and protecting the one downs syndrome kid at my primary school, because the staff had made a point of educating about it.

This would work, but this would have to be applied to older students. I think that neuroanonymity would be more useful for students in the lower grades because they are more likely to understand the general idea behind it if we don't confuse them with arcane language. We could prepare them to BE ABLE to understand when further information is given. Actually, I think that students should not only be educated in these conditions, but they should receive extensive education in psychology (good psychology with modern information, not the antiquated crap), genetics, and how different regimens of nutrition affects different people's moods and intelligence. For example, we could shed light on the possibility that cravings for cannabis could indicate either a deficit of magnesium or an overabsorption of calcium, due to the high magnesium content of marijuana smoke and the calcium-inhibiting action of THC.

It's not the case that Aspies are less human their peers. If anything, their systems are, in a sense, trying to make them superhuman, and the modern Western diet doesn't give them enough nutrition to fulfill its high demands. Women are choosing to feed their babies formula instead of breast-feeding, and they're letting the schools feed their kids instead of packing lunches. It's a recipe for disaster unless we grow up with an intimate understanding of our specific nutritional deficits and the nature of our own minds, and this lack of proper rearing and care is just going to create an endless flow of wealth into the hands of the pharmaceutical giants. It's not their fault, though. We're screwing ourselves over, and they're just taking up the opportunity for profit like any sane human being would. It's not the fault of the pharmaceutical giants that we don't consider the possibility that we're suffering from specific malnutrition or aren't mixing up our genepool enough. They say in their commercials that you should watch your diet! Why don't you?? The only people responsible for this mess is ourselves. Unless this society accepts and respects the fact that every human being is special and unique and also has special and unique nutritional needs, we're going to continue seeing outbreaks of autism, obesity, ADHD, breast cancer, and all kinds of other nightmares. Refusing to accept living and socializing amongst a diversity of phenotypes is just going to cause our own phenotypes to become so overexpressed as to lead to diseased offspring; in a perverse way, it's kind of like inbreeding. Neurodiversity is essential to the success of the human race, both within ourselves and within our societies. Cliques and cliquishness are bad.

Once again, though, because of a highly complex synergy of cultural and genetic trends, we're going to see rising instances of students choosing to take it upon themselves to be the good shepherds, and they can help us fend off the wolves. This would give us one more chance to reach the full flower of our potential. It would be a stupid offer to turn down.

No; we just need to be left alone to live our lives! And you are no part of "we".