| Many parents believe that having Autism is OK. | | | | Autism can teach us all. |
| Granted they may be biased. Many people in the | | | | People with Autism keep us honest. They keep us |
| world are realizing that people with Autism bring a new | | | | sensitive to the differences in the different types of |
| richness to the world. More and more everyday | | | | people in the world. Research has shown students |
| people are choosing to be friends and co-workers of | | | | with disabilities in regular classrooms lead to more |
| people with Autism. | | | | sensitive peers. |
| People with Autism have a different way of viewing | | | | Those peers also do as well if not better on testing |
| the world. It is not good or bad or better or worse. It is | | | | than classes without students with disabilities. There is |
| just a different layer to the world. Sort of like an onion | | | | no reason to expect this not to be the same in |
| has layers. People can have layers and there can be | | | | churches, businesses, and other places in the |
| layers of different types of people. And it is all good. | | | | community. |
| People with Autism are clearer in a lot of ways that | | | | Continuing to believe that Autism or any other disability |
| the typical person. They do not have the guile that a lot | | | | is not OK can lead to the belief that other groups of |
| of people in the world have. As a matter of fact they | | | | people in society are not acceptable either. Hopefully |
| have to be taught social rules so they are not taken | | | | we have gotten past that point. |
| advantage of. Some people believe people with | | | | |