> Nonetheless, I don't necessarily see it as a strict negative There are meaningful advantages. But on balance - again, it's been some twenty years since I was

> Nonetheless, I don't necessarily see it as a strict negative There are meaningful advantages. But on balance - again, it's been some twenty years since I was homeschooled - I've found that being an Other to be painful, repeatedly. I don't believe assimilation to have ever been finished for me. I think the alienation and lack of normality has repeatedly hampered my interactions with mainstream society, to some degree or other. This has material consequences in all sorts of interactions in relation to "social fabric" things. Some of those consequences are trivial - preferring different media; some are profound - things relating to promotion and so forth WRT soft skills.