Reply #53: And age-grade classes are the best way of "socializing" kids why?

[Odin2005]

The proper environment for "socialization" would be age-mixed and unstructured. I am no saying social behavior is instinctual, I am saying the learning of one's society's social norms is instictual. it is much the same as language. language itself is not instinctual, but language acquisition is. Us folks on the spectrum had to learn it much as a person learns a foreign language as an adult, but for most kids it is similar to how a little kid learns his native language.