re: The AMISH would like for us to know we have been fooled HUGELY

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But, I'm not sure that Asperger's should really be a thing. If there is Autism it is of a small incidence, and they know how to protect them....probably better than larger society does.

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The reason they don’t use the term “Aspergers” anymore is because the doctor for which the disease is named was a Nazi. His classification of Aspergers was used to separate the good/useful autistic people from the “bad” ones. Basically, the ones with Aspergers weren’t sent to concentration camps while the ones with full blown autism were sent off to be killed and/or sterilized.

The real problem is our American public education system is a one size fits all approach that doesn’t really work well for anyone. It’s basically just day care meant to punish any traits that make a child difficult to watch for 8hrs and promoting docileness and compliance above literally everything else.