While we're all joyfully lighting up blue for the improving prospects for autistic kids, it's worth a moment for all the autistic adults - most of whom still have no idea they're any different from the rest of us. And for the lonely few who've worked it out, and are still stuck in a world that expects them to be no different from the rest of us.

I soldered transistor shift registers together in the sixties. In 68 IBM taught me Fortran Everyone should know that a series of simple steps can yield useful results.Past that, if a kid hasn't the taste for it then enforcing learning isn't going to help