The "People Power" Disability-Serious Illness-Senior Citizen Superbook Book 6. Special Education 1 (Mentally & Physically Disabled Children at School, Autism)

There are several ways to have a limited ability to think:

Born that way by genetics as with Down's Syndrome.
Born that way by mother's bad habits as with fetal alcohol syndrome.
Get hit in the head, traumatic brain injury, concussion.
Stress of life.
Substance abuse, prescription drugs that alter brain chemistry
Chemicals in ordinary objects like aspartame, lead, mercury, etc.
Electro-magnetic waves
Self-delusion, people get depressed, think too much, etc.

My three main purposes in writing this book are:

To find all the conventional knowledge about mental challenges as I could and centralize it here.

It is evident when a child is born with down syndrome or his or her performance seems slower than normal but everything else is someone's opinion as with autism spectrum disorders and learning disabilities. People who diagnose these so-called disorders have no specific test that can with certainty say they have this disorder therefore need this drug.

That's why you can't take it on face when some medical or mental health professional sits with your child for 40 minutes then tells you that he or she needs to go on ritalin or some other drug for the next x number of years.

No matter how you cut it, it's a profit-driven industry. The school gets extra money for every kid diagnosed as LD or special ed. The mental health people make money diagnosing and counselling these kids plus writing drug prescriptions. The drug companies make tons of money.

None of this stuff existed fifty years ago. It's not divine knowledge created by advanced beings. People came up with all this stuff which to me is kind of a joke when they say a child exhibiting x number of behaviors on a list has some kind of learning disability because children go through the entire spectrum of human behaviors all the time. It doesn't mean they're brain damaged. Every individual is holistic. They should be treated that way not dumped into some group for all kids that are not quite "normal" by current school standards.

The system has created a standard for normal intelligence and anyone who doesn't fit this definition is branded as mentally challenged, autistic or learning disabled in some way.

Human life is big and abundant. The school system's definition of normal intelligence is narrow. Any individual's purpose in life is to become who they are naturally born to be.