I completely agree with you. I think these demands on society are unrealistic. You can't expect that out of teachers and pediatricians. My experience with th

I completely agree with you. I think these demands on society are unrealistic. You can't expect that out of teachers and pediatricians. My experience with the school system (I have a daughter with autism) has been much better then his sounds (I hope so given it's 40 years later). We have no push back in getting our developmental pediatricians' input into our daughter's IEP. Our school provides speech and occupational therapy. But as you mentioned, schizophrenia is a whole other world (even from autism in my opinion). There is no cure. There are only lesser of many evils. You can't expect society to fix that. One thing that really bothers me are these crazy statistics - "one in every five children and one in every four adults has a diagnosable mental illness. A quarter of all mental illnesses are considered serious." One in four? Come on. If the bar is so low that one in four have a mental diagnosis it makes the term meaningless. It drives my wife and I crazy when parents claim there kid had autism but after a month on this fad diet or other they are now cured. Guess what - your kid never had autism! Don't tell that to a parent who knows their daughter will likely never leave home, never marry, and probably never hold down a meaningful job. It's just insulting.