Very interesting post. It’s so very hard to homeschool these children, hats off to you, and obviously movie producer Hollywood dad couldn’t have done it (wouldn’t have either). I have a daughter this way, who has expressed ideations like this boy’s, but given the testosterone differential, boys do the violent thing more than girls. I finally took her out of school as a senior, better late than never. These kids are treated so very very bad, and they don’t have the mental skills to be able to think “whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger”, no, rather for some of them it’s whatever doesn’t kill me makes me want to kill you.
I agree with you. They can’t see the difference. They don’t understand how neurotypicals feel. And kids and teens can be cruel. Groupthink is just horrible.
Smaller environments just for them, and actual courses in understanding neurotypical development and thinking and social cues could really help these kids.
I repeat. NO AMOUNT OF “exposure” to NEUROTYPICAL KIDS will erase one iota of autism. Yet that is the current paradigm. It really only serves the in denial parents who won’t admit there is something permanently different about their child.