Anyone not like special ed?

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I don't mean to offend anyone here (I sometimes end up offending other people with disabilities and creating some sort of drama by accident), but I just want to know how many aspies here hate/hated special ed. I mean, we see aspies who like it, why not those who don't? I respect if other aspies like it. I have nothing against the kids in special ed though, although I can't really stand the mannerisms of some kids (Thank lord I wasn't placed in the more severe special ed class)...It wasn't my fit at all.

I hated it when I was in elementary school because it meant I wasn't normal. Lot of kids feel that way about it. They think being in special ed means they are dumb or ret*d. But in my teens I didn't mind being in it because lot of normal kids went to it. They all had disabilities. We called it the resource room. It was a better word for it because it didn't make kids feel bad about themselves and ashamed and they accepted getting extra help. It did the same for me.

I don't think that my son minds being in special ed -- in fact, I think that he feels more comfortable in special ed classes, and likes "helping" the other kids. From a parental perspective, I guess I didn't mind special ed classes for my son when he was in elementary school, but as he's progressed in middle school, we have eliminated all special ed classes over time -- we did this mostly because often the kids in the special ed classes were also kind of "troublemakers". The class would be harder for the teacher to control, and therefore it would be louder -- and if my son was going to have ANY behavior problems, it was in these classes. Bumping him into all regular ed classes has resulted in NO behavior problems from my son.

He may do some sort of "resource room" when he starts high school -- but I think that it will be a study hall with some teachers there to help. I think that this could be helpful, but if it results in behavior problems and noise, and my son mentions that he doesn't like it, we'll cancel that whole idea too.

My primary school was a kind of borderline special needs school, and I thought it was great. Then I moved to NZ and went to a school where the teachers hadn't even heard of AS, and it was a big change. Completely inflexible about everything. Closest I got to ending up in a special needs class there was when I dropped my maths test in the school swimming pool, got 0% for it, and went down on the record as being completely unable to do maths. So I got bunged in a lunchtime extra class to learn my 2 times table, which I'd known since I was about 6! BORED out of my MIND, to say the least!

Separate supervision at university is nice, though... back in the proper special needs circles, now.

I was never in Special Ed or Needs classes. My school didn't recognize me as in need I guess. I did rather well up through to Middle school. I struggled a little there. I don't know where, but somewhere along there I was introduced to testing hell with those stupid bubble sheets. I hated them. I had to fight myself to fill in the answers. It was like torture inside my head every time I tried to fill in a bubble. 9th grade English was terrible. So was 11th grade English. I barely got through them. I passed the SOL test with 403 or 406 or something. Passing = 400. Felt great as the teacher was pissed and giving long speech on why half the class failed the SOL test as she was passing them out. I felt smart for a day. That all ended when I tried to goto community college. Failed English twice and backed away from English class. Never understood why I had so much trouble with it until this last year reading about maybe having Aspergers.

I am envious of the kids who got to go to special ed my old school district(back when I lived in Colorado) wouldn't make any accommodations for anyone it was like 2003 or 2004 when they started putting aspie kids in their special ed classes (I checked out those classes when I moved back in 05 and the teacher was a moron and clearly needed to go back to school himself). My mom and multiple other parents as well as the Legal Center tried changing the rules back in '99 but it didn't turn out well. The schools filed D&N charges against every single one of the parents because some of the kids have behavioral problems and others were having trouble learning certain subjects. All the kids except for my twin brother and some other girl(can't remember her name it was to long ago) wound up in either a group home or a foster home which sort of changed the direction of the legal battle because the Legal Center couldn't step in any longer so Federation of Families took over trying to get all the kids back home many of the kids started having psychotic break downs either lashing out or entering their own little world because of the drastic change. Last I heard only a few people managed to get their kids back my mom being the first getting me back after a year in worse shape than when I left. It took me about 3 years of therapy because of abuse and I still have nightmares due to my PTSD. Well my mom pulled me out of school packed up everything in one night and moved us to California for a few years and started homeschooling. She taught me what she could and hired tutors for what she couldn't then at the age of 12 I started teaching myself which was actually pretty easy because I am obsessed with reading text books but I lost out on making friends.

I just wish we lived in a world were we didn't have to hear people on TV talking about curing us by taking away milk (I personally love dairy products they make up about 60% of my diet) and we could be welcomed into schools because after all for many people with ASD schools is like a paradise.

like special ed? haha special ed is 1 of the things i hate the most.

i was in special ed until i was 8 years old. i didnt talk until i was 7 and i was never fully potty trained im 11 now and in normal class but they put me in special ed 2 months ago just cause my grades were a little bad ! i cant even dout of special ed for now but they said i might be goin back soon. i hate my school there a bunch of jerks. but i cant even do basic math so i guess its my own falt

They should not have resource/special ed in the first place. It is a trap to set your kids up for failure and lack of success.
It will do you so much harm and if you end up in all special ed in high school, you will end up going to a community college and you will either only end up with an Associates or a High School degree. They should seriously let special ed people be admitted into a 4 year university and there should be a more fair academic system, instead of giving them only an option to go to a 2 year university and set up your life for eternal failure with a job with a lousy pay.