I can not agree with this one. Not from personal experience anyway. Maybe the situation is different elsewhere. I finished my schooling, got my diploma ... I am 34 years old ... no steady job and got nothing to show for. Oh dont get me wrong, I'm doing fine and this is not whining in any way. But here is the thing....What I have i built on my own, with the sweat on my back and calluses on my hands and brains. Does the world look at me and think oh lets give her more? Beeing capable means you have to fend on your own. U get pushed in that pool with a smirk and smile: swim or drown. But there is the other side. People who cant swim.

Now to clarify before someone thinks im ranting. I am not. I work with special needs. They bring me joy, they motivate me and i find every day a new chalange always looking for solutions and how I could do/give/make more. So this is my personal experience: they are mostly happy. They are striped of social norms, usually focused only on themselves and their own pleasure. Their mental and emotional age is much lower, meaning they look on the world much differently and not as they are different in anyway. Most even think of themselves as beeing better. When they look themselves in the mirror, they dont see themselves with predjustice and criticism as we do. They don't see themselves as an outlier. To make that valid they would first have to grasp the concept of "the world and its norms".

The world doesnt cater to me..."a capable healthy woman". But it caters to them. Here they get whole support from the system and sociality. I am always happy when one finishes our program and gets a job. Me? I have a job...for this year. Next year? I do not know.

Lets face it....i will never be a ballerina. I am to old, have to much meat on my bones and so much grace as a tractor. But I know 2 girls with down syndrom who are. They are not as slender, as gracefull or even young as the rest of balerinas. But they can be one.

Just saying....

the world caters to the majority, the average.

I guess it depends where you live.