"Yup. That's right. It is a chronic problem, and until the schools improve their performance in this regard, it would be no more appropriate to congratulate them than it would be to congratulate a doctor on his or her successes if their negligence was causing large numbers of their patients to die.


On the subject of feeling superior, personally, I would just like to see people understand the differences, to appreciate that it's ok for those of us who have differently wired brains to be the way we are. That we have our own abilities, and that, although they aren't always understood or recognized by the larger population, they still have value of their own.

Even at my age, I am still often judged as being less than adequate by people who don't understand how I experience the world, and who don't see that while my way of experiencing it has its problems, it also has benefits as well. "


BRILLIANTLY put, Carol! :0)