At the risk of sounding elitist, you mention people who are nonverbal and struggle with abstract concepts. To be frank, the community is not oriented towards those people, does not particularly try to serve them, and would be stretched very thin if it tried to do so. I suspect that efforts headed in such a direction would be counterproductive.
That isn’t to say that we shouldn’t try to be inclusive—but at some point a line should be drawn with respect to who is and isn’t in our target audience, and I think “this person does not grasp abstract concepts” is far over that line.
At the risk of sounding elitist, you mention people who are nonverbal and struggle with abstract concepts. To be frank, the community is not oriented towards those people, does not particularly try to serve them, and would be stretched very thin if it tried to do so. I suspect that efforts headed in such a direction would be counterproductive.
That isn’t to say that we shouldn’t try to be inclusive—but at some point a line should be drawn with respect to who is and isn’t in our target audience, and I think “this person does not grasp abstract concepts” is far over that line.