Do we really need to exchange the furniture to match current trends? IKEA basically invented fast fashion for furniture, but we don't have to operate that way. Not to mention that is highly unsustainable.
I think you're mistaking two things. Being around neurotypicals and teaching him proper social skills and coping mechanism.
Normal kids can and will learn the latter from other kids, but it is way harder for autistics. He can learn social skills for sources that are made with autistic way of thinking in mind and that will be more humane (?) I think.
He will also need to learn a bit different set of skills than neurotypicals (like more emotional regulation etc), I don't remember exactly when I found it, but there is a theory or sth that autistic people develop differently AKA on a different timeline.
Being in regular kindergarden will likely result in bullying so please keep that in mind.
Source: my autistic self being bullied since kindergarden and living with NTs for quite some time ;)
You can also look at how it influences you, like bad stress in making you unable to cope and can cause some mental health issues. At one point there can be just too much, in dog training that is called threshold and individuals have their own capacity. So 3 life events that you would handle no problem separately, could be way worse when they happen at once.
This is kinda of sad, because wikipedia has her page titled as Marie Curie too. It is a bit ironic imo, because poles are very proud of her and yet at the time the country failed her, by not giving the possibility of attending university.
> the country failed her, by not giving the possibility of attending university
The country didn't exist at the time, being partitioned between Prussia, Russia and Austria-Hungary. Poles didn't have much to say about the university admission policies of the Russian Empire, where she lived. She did, however, attend the so called Flying University [1], which was a higher education institution organized by Polish underground resistance.
European here, is stating your ethnicity normal on uni applications? What is the reasoning behind that? To me it seems very odd as being female in IT I try to hide it when I can (having resume without photo etc) and I would be outraged if we had to state our ethnicity/religion/other on resume.
> Yes, it is fairly normal. US universities attempt to control the percentages of each ethnicity using a short list of ethnic buckets.
This is outrageous. Inasmuch many people do not fall neatly into these idiotic "buckets". Moreover, people with exceptional academic records and belonging to the categories that are biased positively have legitimate reasons to be incensed by this. How on earth anybody thought it to be a sensible policy?
We've gotten to the point in US culture where many view it as sexist or racist to rally against affirmative action policies that are blatantly sexist and racist.
I'm as left wing as they come, and I'm all for affirmative action. I think that a lot of state money should go to help impoverished neighborhoods, and to specifically aid their people to attain a higher education. But directly biasing the admission process seems bigoted and risks tarnishing the reputation of the very people it should be helping. I do not understand the rationale behind that.
>is stating your ethnicity normal on uni applications?
Yes
>What is the reasoning behind that?
Affirmative action requirements. Students can check the box for "prefer not to answer" if they wish. Though I don't know if that gives you better results than admitting to be white or asian.
They're not the messengers, they're the normalizers and facilitators of the system.
That would be like saying that Kim Jong Un is a messenger because he teaches his people about the evils of a totalitarian dictatorship (through a very hands-on approach).
