More Students With Asperger Syndrome Going to College

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Like many of his high school classmates, Robby Cvejanovich is trying to decide which college to attend this fall.

While Cvejanovich is concerned about picking a school with a good zoology program, his parents are anxious about what will happen outside the classroom as their autistic son transitions into college life:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/TurningPoints ... id=4568471

Cool! If only my university had the same programs as Marshall.

Why is this news? Aspergers isn't retardation, why shouldn't we go to university?

I graduated college with flying colors. Of course it can be done!

It's not news in my community, either.

I have a Master's in English. People with Asperger's aren't stupid.

More people with AS and other identified learning differences are going to college in general. Many people with AS went to college, graduated, and excelled in life before it was identified in the DSM-IV in 1994. It may have been tougher, but they did it. I'm proof.

an autistic person pursuing higher education is not news to me.

HI people, I'm new here. Just learned of Wrong Planet from my new counselor today.

Of course we can graduate from College. I'm getting my Master's in Chemistry tomorrow, 4.00 GPA too! Of course I hated being a Teaching Assistant and gave it up as soon as I could.

I'd like to post my web portfolio which I am proud of, but I am afraid to make public the links on it for fear of their getting unwanted mail (besides I'm too new here).

Back to school and graduating at 51 y.o.

Tough, but doable,

--------PRK

as we say here in australia good on ya mate!

means well done.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I see these articles that seem to be saying "Hey, parents of kids diagnosed with Asperger's--your kid can have a life! They can go to college! They can have a career! they can get married! They can have kids! They can own their own house!" And so on. When people with (undiagnosed) AS have been doing these things all along--maybe having more problems or finding things harder, but still doing them.

It's great that adult Aspies who have succeeded at having success or happiness in various areas are writing books now about their lives. Hopefully some of the parents that worry that their newly diagnosed Aspie kid will never be able to live independently will have their minds set at rest a little and not think that AS/autism is such a horrible thing.

I ended up having to go and speak to a few families my parents were dealing with who had newly-diagnosed children, just to assure them that yes, you CAN have a life! They thought their kids would never be able to do anything... not even read or write (despite being ahead of their classes in those areas). And it was all down to what they'd heard in the media.

I've never seen people go away from a coffee with me looking so excited and pleased; if I kept this up my head might really start to inflate...