As I sit here and ponder your frustrated replies, I wonder if perhaps, I haven't seen anyone since a young child isn't that you're all gone somewhere but in fact that there are maybe single digits of you scattered across entire cities and states. That I'd have to go to a conference to aggregate enough specialized interest in say something pertaining to disabled people similar to Comicon or PAX for comics and gaming. That the real reason that the public library never has anyone using their equipment is that there's only one or two blind or deaf people in my entire county, and I'm never there when or if they show up (equipment at home). And thus it was the elementary school system that served this purpose, gathering all the disabled children from across the state or region because it was the only school system that was large enough to have the funding for specialized educational facilities. And so when a certain age or grade was reached everyone dispersed to other specialized care facilities and schools appropriate for that age bracket.
I'd never considered that. It was just weird to me. Going from thousands all on one campus, to none at all. As a young child the idea of moving temporarily from area to area would have been a foreign concept and I didn't think to ask anyone as I only saw them during recess, between classes, and before/after school (with a few in my classes). So, of them all, maybe only a few were local.
