Scott Barry Kaufman

And that is like my life's mission is to figure out ways in which not just the school system, but organizational structure, society,

can be more welcoming and destigmatize and in a way normalize the fact that we're all freaking weird, you know, like we're all are.

And yet we're all expected to be the same.

And you go down the line, there are very specific needs that all these different forms of neurodivergency take where there could be custom-tailored, individualized, self-actualization plans that really build on the strengths that a lot of these kids have as opposed to just focusing on their weaknesses.

That would be the big one.

You take ADHD, you know, there's rich imagination there.

There's rich creativity that is being created.

just squelched because you're forcing them to focus on a boring lecture, which drives them, you know, their executive functioning crazy.

You know, it's really difficult.

It's difficult.

If you want to take dyslexia, for instance, a lot of kids with dyslexia are going to be great at business.

You know, if you give them opportunities to sell things to other students or to create a business, figure out a business plan to go out there and act and move and not be forced to just read, you know, you'll see that they have amazing capacities there.

Autism, you know, if you want to look at autism, you can say, well, wow, if you listen to their special interest area, if you really ask them, you know, what are you passionate about?

What is that?

You know, and listen to them and lead with that as opposed to forcing them

to be interested in things that aren't, you know, you'll see so much greater potential than you see.

So there's a lot there.

I agree with that a thousand percent.

And I really agree that that is a major problem we have in our education system.

It's not designed for difference.