Look at Satya Nadella and his spl needs kid. Good example of how dealing with someone with diff needs shapes ones experiences and thinking and actions. He constantly talks about empathy in ways you won't find others doing.

Ofcourse what you learn from dealing with people with different needs depends on your own personality, needs, circumstances etc.

What is interesting to me at work, is lot of people struggle to deal with each other because of differences in needs, personalities, skillgaps, knowledgegaps. And as the world gets more complex, as info explodes, these gaps and differences increase.

Those people who think about and try to deal with differences in needs (like those who deal with autistic kids), will learn things that those who filter out people in the group they can't deal with wont.

For people that flagged my message: "The word neurodiversity is attributed to Judy Singer, an Australian social scientist on the autism spectrum, who used the term in her sociology honors thesis published in 1999." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurodiversity). You can bury your head in the sand, that doesn't change the meaning of words.

Also, it's is quite ironical that people advocating for it can't handle an opinion deviating slightly from their own beliefs.

NO. People aren't flagging you for defining neurodiversity accurately. They're flagging you for questioning that high-needs people with Autism add no value to human society.

I'm happy to say it: that's a pretty terrible opinion to have.

Really remarkable that somebody could completely miss the fact that most people consider the opinion "I'm skeptical these people have any value whatsoever" execrable.