207: Special Ed - Act One. Get On The Mic.

Arthur Bradford:	Yeah. It's funny because Ron [and is mentally disabled], who is so celebrity obsessed, often gets asked how does it feel to be a celebrity now? And he just brushes that question off. You know, they've lived their lives. They're all 35, 40. I don't think that this process is going to actually radically change them.
For some reason it seems like they just always expected that this would happen, that someone would pick them up and drive them across the country to make a movie.
Ira Glass:	Wow.
Arthur Bradford:	I don't know. That sounds weird. But if you ask them, they're all kind of like, yeah, this is the way it was supposed to be. And they took it all in stride.
My question on this:	Why wouldn't we think that? It's not questionable that typically developing people dream big dreams of fame and fortune; but that is so surprising for people who have a different cognitive style. Why is that?