They weren’t left to create their own societies. They were junior members of adult societies.

Life can be pretty good at 10 or 20, but it's often frustrating at 15. This is too big a problem to solve here, but certainly one reason life sucks at 15 is that kids are trapped in a world designed for 10 year olds.

Peter Thiel also has suggested in numerous public talks that “being Aspergery” may be useful for insulating oneself from many social trends and thus for maintaining originality in one’s thinking. In Peter’s basic model of human behavior, influenced by his former Stanford professor René Girard, mimetic desire is strong—that is, human beings look to

The irony, of course, is that the very place where inventive thinking could be—some would say should be—cultivated is where it gets snuffed out. Except, of course, for the lucky few who get pulled out of school and given an opportunity to diverge, experiment, and make mistakes.