I read something in “The Element” and also in “Can the World Afford Autistic Spectrum Disorder” that both said that unless a person feels safe, secure, loved, and all that good stuff they can never be open and free enough to tap into their full potential, cannot use their full creativity or access all that they can be. I completely agree with this.

People living to “just survive” whether from poverty, living with emotional pain, living with abusive people, living in fear, living with physical pain or sick with an illness are in a different mode more like basic survival and it is energy sapping and very different from those who are living with more ideal conditions.

I have wondered sometimes if the reason that some homeschooled kids are successful, whole and happy young adults when in their 20s or the way they are different at college admissions times is not due to something academic learned in their HSing but due to close family bonds, strong attachment and other good things that MAY have been in their family and childhood. I realize not all homeschooled kids are in the perfect home environment though.

I wonder if not going to school spared some of them from potential negative circumstances that could have changed who they were for the worse. I certainly had school experiences that were quite bad and did need to recover from them.