Reply #16: How about we treat "everybody the same" -- toddlers use diapers,

[IdaBriggs]

so lets make ALL CHILDREN use diapers! Sixteen years olds can drive cars, so let's let FIVE year olds drive cars, too!

At a certain point, its time to realize that there are different needs for different people at different life cycles, and that also means acknowledging that certain disabilities -- including some mental and physical problems -- should not be treated in a cookie cutter fashion.

I have explained how my BIL cannot do "abstract reasoning" because he is PHYSICALLY INCAPABLE of it. That doesn't make him less of a human being, but it does mean that babbling geometry at him is an exercise in futility, and a waste of valuable resources.