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I suspect there are not really very many people left with what you call neurotypical wiring. There are more diagnosis of neuro differences now because it is being scrutinized. I know that if I were a child today 2 of my siblings and I would be diagnosed as "on the spectrum" of autism. My grandson is diagnosed as that and he had a lot of trouble when he started school, but it was the teachers, not the children who caused the rukus. And I call that school the Stepford Wives school where no one is allowed to be different (including hair color). He was moved in the middle of second grade to a new school where the focus was language intensive, and everything was taught in Spanish. He knew very little spanish but he learned and he was accepted easily at that school, even being behind in language. He got a spanish tutor and caught up to the other kids for the most part. We need to quit making kids fit into boxes and start treating them like individuals.
I came to realize that eventually! You are right; as the kids today would say, "let your freak flag fly!"
My grandson used to tell us about converstations he had with our dead relatives that he had known before he was 3. He doesn't talk about it much any more but he was almost 8 when he quit.
Young children were always more prone to 'see' or experience paranormal stuff. It's a shame as a lot of it is shrugged off as imagination. Some of it may be as depending on age, parts of their brain are still developing. Not everything should be tossed aside. It's detrimental to tell a child 'everything' they experience is 'in their head'. Believe me in know, been there. It took some time before i was old enough, without opinion interference, i was able to piece it all together. Hell, even now i am still putting the puzzle pieces together and realizing what was and was not.
