Masks to stay required in Boston schools come March 1, Wu says

and there are many different ways of being in the world, and people adapt.

In Saudi Arabia, most women wear the niqab. Only their eyes are visible. Saudis make jokes about very young kids, like toddlers, going up to the wrong mom at childcare pickup, but children quickly adapt and are more tuned into eyes and hands for body language than to the full face. No one is going around saying Saudi children don't learn communication or social skills. Of course they do; they learn Saudi ones. Kids who have spent their formative years largely dealing with masked teachers and professionals have similarly adapted and figured out others ways of obtaining information. This includes my autistic kid who typically looks at people's mouths when they speak, but for the past two years has talked about ways they adjust when teachers and providers are masked. And just like Saudi children, our children are around unmasked people with their full faces visible when at home.