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ay Ive posted before but Im comming to the end of this part of my reserach project so Im posting again, I have Asperger's and Im in college studying multimedia Im making a film about having Asperger's syndrome and what school is like and for my reserach I have made a questionaire for those on the spectrum and those without (plesae sttae if you are on it or not) I would paprecaite you guys filling it in its below you dont have to answer everything I had 2 replies last Id like a few more Thanks

1. where you in a special ed or mainstream
2.what are your most prominent memories of school
3.Whats your worst memory
4. whats your best
What were the most iddcult things
6. what do you think should be in my film
Thanks

A1: Mainstream. I don't think I'm high up enough on the Spectrum for Special Education, although I do require guidance every so often.
A2: My most prominent memories are always when I'm enjoying myself, and they outweigh negative aspects at a ratio of about 50:1! They mostly consist of me goofing off in class or hanging about with my friends.
A3: Worst memory? I don't think I have one! The closest would probably be when my Mum threatened to switch schools if I didn't get back on track in school.
A4: My best memory is... huh, what is it? Probably the first few days on WP, they were pretty cool. Plus whenever I'm chatting to Starbuline!
A5: I tend to have the most difficulty regarding change and sudden change of plan the occurs out of my control.
A6: Well, apart from me ( ) I think the film should be informative, plus show many common problems experienced in school, such as bullying, and how our literal thinking and other traits can get us into trouble when we don't mean anything at all.

EDIT: Upon closer inspection, I realized mainstream meant normal society and whatnot. No wonder I didn't notice it!

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1. both
2. I once got shoved in a locker, I remember that pretty well ... I didn't even think people actually did that. most of the stuff I remember is being bullied (and then my brother scaring the people who bully me. )
3. a very close friend dieing.
4. Most of my memorys are good... <_< I cannot think of a best
5. Difficulty writing focusing and talking
6. I don't know.

1. Both
2. Being attacked by two as*holes and using a chair to defend myself
3. They are all equally bad
4. There are none
5. Everything
6. Stuff

1. At my first school, I was in mainstream, then special ed at my second school, then mainstream again at my 3rd school, then at my 4th school I was in special ed until year 7.
2. My principal pinning me to the artroom floor and screaming at me(1st school), being violently dragged into a classroom after being sent out of class (2nd school), my teacher twisting my neck downwards while her aide held my arms behind my back (2nd school), being constantly mocked, not only for every little thing that I did but for things they just assumed I did (4th school), being laughed at literally ALL THE f*****g TIME!! ! (4th school), a boy having a seisure after touching an electric fence (4th school)
3. See above
4. Bludging scrapbooking (part of some extra lesson program they had) and talking to my crush.
5. If by that you mean difficult, leaving the special class and learning just how much I was hated.
6. Maybe a short easy-to-follow "how to not bully aspies" instructional video, i.e. "step 1: try to consider that YOU wouldn't like it if anyone said anything nasty to you. step 2: consider that the person in question never asked to have asperger's. step 3: keep in mind that taking your problems out on these people WON'T make them any better" and so on and so forth.

1. where you in a special ed or mainstream

I was in mainstream throughout the entirety of my 'education'.

2.what are your most prominent memories of school

Sitting in class, silent, feeling distant, threatened and downright uncomfortable, not to mention bored.

3.Whats your worst memory

Gee, what a question! Boggles the mind, it really does. Every PE lesson was hell, I used to forge sick notes to get out of participating, the teacher had his suspicions and said he would call my parents, he didn't. Damn coward/liar. I hated PE, having to stand there while some moron with a spring in his step and fun in his voice tried to motivate me into making a fool of myself with a couple of kind words.

4. whats your best

Erm. Hmm. *strokes chin* Let's see....oh, I know, when we had substitute teachers and thus spent the lesson doing very little indeed and watching some of the other students getting sent out of the room.

What were the most iddcult things

You mean difficult?
I found it difficult to:
1. Pay attention to the monotonous drivel that flows from teachers mouths like sewerage flows from a heavily damaged, overflowing septic tank. Although that comparison is almost insulting to the tank.
2. Not explode with rage when we were forced to suffer yet another patronising preachy assembly by manipulative figureheads who think they can make the innocent among us feel guilty for what others have done wrong.
3. Stand the assemblies where the headmaster would shove his religion onto us as though it was less a school and more a f**king church! I went to school to learn, not to be brainwashed by silly little fairy tales.
4. Deal with the fact that I was a target 90% of the time. If I had spent long enough there, I bet I would have evolved eyes in the back of my head.
5. Answer/accept questions that were clearly written by someone with the mental capacity of a boiled potato.
6. Deal with getting up early in the morning, I was constantly tired, I still am in fact. Having to get up early every day meant that I was on the verge of falling asleep at all times in school, hardly in the mood to learn.
7. Deal with the fact that school was never about learning, but assimilation and no one else seemed to notice.
8. Deal with the whole hierarchy thing. Some guy who drives a yellow camper van, can't control the class and has chronic halitosis gets to tell ME what to do? And I'm supposed to sit there like this whole experience is essential to my development? What're you crazy?
9. Deal with class punishments where the whole class has to stay behind at break time because one or two individuals were talking. You think THAT is gonna make me annoyed at the people who were talkng? Nuh-uh, it's the teacher that loses the respect for using such trite techniques to try and manipulate us and thinking that we're a bunch of f**king idiots! It's the teacher who's responsible for dishing out an unfair punishment and it was always me, the quiet student who never put a step wrong that always gets f**ked over every f**king time!! !! !! !! !!
There are many, many other things I found difficult to deal with but I have to stop somewhere.

6. what do you think should be in my film

The negative consequences of pushing people through a system that was not really designed with them in mind.

If your budget extends far enough, include shots of school buildings being demolished with my face superimposed over the wrecking crew. Now that's a fantasy worthy of being put to film!

1. where you in a special ed or mainstream- Mainstream.
2.what are your most prominent memories of school 9th grade
3.Whats your worst memory Trying to kill myself
4. whats your best The day before Thanksgiving break. First time I got high on cough medicine
What were the most iddcult things Seeing other people and people saying 'what's up?' or whistling at me because I don't know if it's sarcasm or not.
6. what do you think should be in my film Something dramatic that would make me cry, and that won't be hard.

i'm on the spectrum (diagnosed with aspergers when i was 13-i'm 19 now)
1. i was in special ed classrooms in highschool but 3rd through 8th grade had some classes mainstream with a one to one aid and some classes special ed.
2. i mostly remember in 9th grade when they tried me in mainstream and it was just too much with all the noise and big classes (i just sat there and rocked back and forth and flapped) so they didnt keeo me in mainstream because i couldnt function so i went to all special ed classes
3. my worst memory is in 11th grade (my hardest year) and i could barely function in the special ed classrooms (i had to have an aid even though i was in special ed classes) and i really thought i could never make it)
4. my best memory is having occupational therapy at school because i got to take a break from class and go swing and it didnt even matter if i flapped because it was ok in that room
5. the most difficult things was all the kids in school and the hallways with the bright lights and ppl brushing into u. i didnt go in the hallway in passing time becuase i would meltdown
6. i think u shoulf talk about in ur film how schooling varies with every different person with asperegrs. some need more help others dont need any.
IF U NEED ANYMORE INFO OR HELP LET ME KNOW!

1. Mainstreamed the whole time, since no one even knew I had AS.
2. Walking in the hallways fearing for my safety.
3. Someone spreading a rumor about me being gay.
4. The graduation ceremony.
5. (I think "iddcult" was supposed to be "difficult".) Teachers who played favorites with athletes.
6. Anything that can make NTs become less vicious, or at least understand AS better.

Hay

just wnated to say thanks everyone for doing this for me it is greatly apprecaited

1. mainstream
2. picked on. Bored. Skipping out.
3.Tearing someone's face off.
4. Playing cards
5. I couldn't really get any kind of cult going in
school, so I don't know.
6. Film? Moi.