I worked in a group home for mentally disabled adults, from 1998 to 2004. The men that I took care of were full grown adults ranging from 25 to 60 in age, but their emotional and mental  development was that of a toddler to preteen. The bureaucracy that ran our state funded agency was very keen on terms like diversity and inclusion even back then. The reality is that the people I took care of were  only capable of so much, and normal opportunities did not apply. These people were never going to grow up and become adults that could take care of themselves. Some of the people that manage the homes we’re really concerned that we make it look like these people had opportunities like the rest of us, even though persuing those opportunities caused a lot of trouble, pain and confusion. Being retarded is hard enough without people placing false expectations on your potential to participate in society as “normal” people. It was all in the name of inclusion, but that was not the result at all. Policy makers need to be prepared to drop their lofty ideals when reality provides ample evidence that things aren’t going as planned.,(reply>), There are people who have a big IQ score but they don’t have common sense for some basic things in life!!!,(reply>), I did a similar job, the buzzword at the time was 'normalisation ', which involved forcing adults out of bed at 9AM on Tuesday mornings to go and play badminton whichis not normal . This was part of the 'care in the community ' push. Most of those who could verbalise a preference wanted to go back to the big hospital where they had a genuine community.,(reply>), @unagiikura   A factor of “intelligent society”  believe those individuals neednot exist so intelligence does not mean all good. Alot of intelligent people have bad ideas,(reply>), @eric Rotermund I'm trying to figure out why your response is relative.   There are many things that you don't HAVE to do.  Technically, you don't need to learn much of ANYTHING if you have a smartphone and the Internet.  Does that mean that pretty much everything is useless ?,(reply>), Politicians don't care about results, they only care about appearances.