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I would agree if people would experience the things that are different as something good, but that's often not what happens. Most cases people tend to treat things that are strange and unknown as scary and bad. Also, most people with a disability or mental illness are reminded about that regularly. The guy that misses a leg sees people walking all the time for example. Nobody should delusion themselves, no mater how far or close you are from the norm. That being said, I dont disagree with what you say about American culture and education. Stigma for disabled people, poor people and homeless people is very similar. Let me repeat my point and say that treating these people well is not gonna fix their problem, but it will make it easier to deal with life.
I think we're mostly on the same page.
I'd just add as someone who was a practicing psychologist that it has been conclusively proven that empathy is learned, it usually needs to be learned young if it is to be learned at all, it is easily tought, and our culture chooses to teach the opposite in glorifying/inflating individual potential with disdain for considering the needs of others.
Which had led us to this collapse as the rugged individual peasants tear eachother down instead of bringing power back down to earth.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/introduction-2/
If it were up go me, this experiment would be required curriculum for all young children, but modern American parents would burn schools down if a teacher DARED to tell half a class that kids with other color eyes were better than them for a single day (and then doing the opposite the next day) to safely instill what it feels like to be deemed less important by others. That's how anti-empathy, and thus I'd argue antihumanist, Americans are TRAINED to be.
After all, when my kid grows up he needs to COMPETE AGAINST and BEAT your kid so he has MOAR than them. 🇺🇸
Yea I think a lot of valuable traits can be taught, although you probably know more if you actually studied psychology. But unfortunately I think you are right destructive traits can also be learned. Retraining yourself more desirable traits is much harder than learning it when you're young. A 'good' society is a lot more than just a 'good' government.
But the traits that come with autism aren't just a matter of learning (not sure if you imply that), their brains are formed differently before birth already, just like how people are born with other traits (like being more/less athletic than average or more/less intelligent to name something).
I wasn't implying the empathy deficit was from those with autism, but from most of the US population, and by design.