muonneutrino

Yeah, society sucks for that - I think it may be getting a bit better, with a lot more media attention addressing mental illness and the stigma associated with it (granted, much of this overemphasizes depression and ignores other forms of mental illness). I'm sorry to hear about your experiences, and while I don't know what I can personally do to help, I hope you know that there are certainly people out there who care about you. Mental illness sucks, and society's ingrained stigmas suck, but often individual people (friends, family, random strangers you meet at a coffee shop) can help. I wish you the best.

This seems like a far more hands-on and inspiring approach to teaching computer science to elementary, middle, or high school students than the typical intro to CS classes you see now, which might occasionally have some graphical interfaces, but primarily (at least in my limited experience) operate on the command line and do a variety of abstract things. It's a lot harder to fall in love with a sorting algorithm than with a turtle drawing robot or the interesting geometric patterns shown on pages 14-16.