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Frank Sterle
2mo
Especially if the rate of Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnoses is increasing, there should be an inclusion with standard high-school curriculum of child-development science that would also teach students about the often-debilitating condition. Neurodiversity lessons, while not overly complicated or extensive, might help reduce the incidence of chronic bullying against such vulnerable students. [Schoolteachers themselves might also receive training in higher-functioning ASD.] It would explain to students how, among other aspects of the condition, people with ASD, including those with higher functioning autism, are often deemed willfully ‘difficult’ and socially incongruent, when in fact such behavior is really not a choice. It would also elucidate how “camouflaging” or “masking,” terms used to describe ASD people pretending to naturally fit into a socially ‘normal’ environment, causes their already high anxiety and depression levels to further increase. And that this exacerbation is reflected in the disproportionately elevated rate of suicide among higher functioning ASD people. ....
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