Autistic boy handcupped for singing during P.E.

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Yeah, it's one of those things that looks good on paper.

This story reminds me of something that happened to me in 8th grade, though nowhere near as bad. I don't remember exactly what I was doing in math class that day, it could have been singing or stimming, but the teacher made some joking comment about me being put in a straitjacket if I didn't stop. I stopped, and she left it at that, but I then intelocked the sleeves of my sweatshirt to simulate the appearance of a straitjacket while listening to the lecture. This wasn't to tell her off, but for my own amusement. I did it so subtly that no one noticed until the teacher did a few minutes later, whereupon she yelled at me for overreacting to what she said and sent me out into the hall.

This wasn't really embarrassing, since the other kids clearly thought she'd just flown off the handle and turned on me for no apparent reason.

I've long thought that there are certain unconscious stimuli that trigger the majority of people to spontaneously turn against certain individuals. The evolutionary psychologist in me now considers that just one of many mechanisms NTs have accidentally developed to weed undesirables out of the gene pool, and considers my frequent desire for physical violence to be merely more honest. I made a few friends, but the public school system really left me not valuing human life unconditionally.

I still hope to find some way to learn what all of these stimuli are so I can get groups of NTs to be MY attack dogs for a change, then I could do some weeding.

Hey, I'd do it in moderation. Just because I want to play God doesn't mean I wouldn't play fair.

That is unacceptable. Period. I know how schools can treat kids. They don't care because they just want that money they get for every kid that sits there each day. (And no, I am not saying every school, but there are a lot like that).

I hope that kid's parents do something about this.


This reminds me of when the principal here threatened to call the cops to have me removed from class, (perfect time to shutdown, huh?) because I wouldn't go to the library (I didn't get along with the librarians). He said I was a danger to myself and others.. I ended up just walking home. If I truly was a danger, why didn't he have a cop escort me home? You know, to make sure I was safe?!
The principal -before this happened- had told me I never had to go to the library.

I wish we would have known about my Asperger's then (I was only dx with ADHD at the time).

United states school system is the biggest piece of sh*t that i have to deal with... its all f*cking BS

Strapples, I could not possibly agree more. This new "Everyone is the same, no child gets left behind" BS is ruining my life! I wish it was like it was 20 or 30 years ago, you could replace the grade you got in a subject with the final exam grade and pass without having to do anything, and also be able to take the classes you wanted, not the exact same stuff as everyone else. I am as creative as a brick, yet they insist I do creative writing in English and take an art course (thankfully, this year there was Technical Drawing offered instead of an art course, if you wanted to take it). I am horrible at anything social, I got a 0 out of 100 on the social part of the learning style test, yet they still insist on group activities, and flunk me when I either ignore the others and do it on my own anyway, or simply not talk to the other people they try to stick me with. I feel that only one person in the entire school really understands me, my Living Enviroment teacher. She is a genious, used to be a biochemist for the government, quit because she didn't want to be responsible for creating new forms of bio warfare, got a job as a teacher because she was bored. She is strict, but respects people based on intellect and effort, not social skills or popularity.

Thank you! i am absoultely sick of the schools... they are finally complying with our wishes AFTER we threatened them with a lawsuit and gave them a lawyers letter... but usually compliance like this does not last and you have to sue them... anyways, lawsuits are fun! court is fun too

I don't know what public school system of 20-30 years ago you're thinking of, but I can assure you from personal experience that it didn't work that way anywhere in the Pacific Northwest, at least - and am reliably informed that this didn't happen in Mississippi or southern California, either. Technical Drawing? The only electives at my high school were a choice of Metal Shop or Ag Science, and a choice of trying out for one of the sports teams or working on the school "newspaper" (easily the most heavily censored sheet this side of Pravda). The only change is with "No Child Left Behind", which effectively abandons children who exceed the norm, and many children who achieve the norm easily, in favor of boosting along those incapable of normal learning. While in some cases this is desirable, in others you wind up pouring massive school funds into attempting to teach children who simply do not wish to, or for some reason cannot, learn.

On the other hand, 20 years ago, the diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome did not yet exist - there would be no services or assistance for you on that basis. With luck, you might have received another diagnosis, and received some kind of help, even if the wrong kind; but experience tells me that if you're at all high-functioning, you would have been dismissed as "weird", and the majority of other children (and a fair percentage of the adults) would feel it their duty to beat or shame the "weirdness" out of you.

Trust me, you don't really want to have been in school 23-30 years ago...

Amen, Strapples.

The kid looks exactly like my little brother, albeit a year or two older.

*sighs* It just reminds me of what happened when I was in fourth grade in Memphis. Just because the teacher has no grip or discernment on when to exercise 'proper discipline'...

Hand-cuffed for singing in P.E?...Now, it is beyond my mental capacity to understand why on earth someone would do that...

... Muad'Dib ...

THAT SUCKS! I am mad at that teacher and the people who allow this kind of injustice... *foams angrily at mouth...*

Really weird and inappropriate.

Can we smell a lawsuit coming up their discriminatory a sses?!

haha, am I the only one who got that reference?
maybe they were afraid he'd one day ride his sandworm to school? :p

But yeah, it's realy stupid, to say the least, that they cuffed him for something so insignificant.
At least those 'bro's' didn't 'taze' him. :p

Like this kid

Grrrrr.... if i ever get tasered i swear to god i will come back and hunt that officer down and run him over with my powerchair until he dies...

If someone being tasered could somehow grab onto the person tasering them and make contact with their skin, the taserer would be shocked as well, right? I know that doing so would be almost impossible, even if they were close enough to use it in stun-gun mode, but would that work?