Do your teachers know you have asperger's? Mine don't!

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Exactly what I feel. I keep telling them
"Can you please do me a favor... by not doing me ANY Favors? I can do stuff by myself."
I hate it when they make you feel like an Idiot.

I know. My friend's mentor is very patronising to him, and me. Once we both had enough and told her exactly what we felt, she didn't take the hint. So on the lesson before the last we skived off in protest, but his mentor and all the others found us in the last lesson and patronised us even more, like they though our act of rebelion was a cry for help or something.
Even now my friend's mentor still won't take the hint and GO AWAY.

well i put no but if maybe was a choice i would choose it but thats only if i tell them cuz half of the people i tell they dont believe me.
but my sociology teacher could possibly know not sure he also has my sister in his us history class & SSA class last year and were both shy in our classes and my sister is an NT she just dosent have friends in that class. he started to notice that she is the one who always laughs at his jokes i dont laugh i dont get his humor sometimes and he scares me!
he told her that i dont make any facial expressions at all which is an asperger's symptom???

I tried telling em but they don't believe me.

That's really interesting. Could you tell us a little more about how that works. Don't tell me it's because they think you're too smart and they think autistics are dumb.

It's because there's a waiting list for official diagnosis. That shouldn't mean that I don't have it, though, cos I know myself just as well (better, in fact) than some doctor, right?

Being smart might have something to do with it, though. I don't act like a stereotype, so they assume I must be NT.

All my teachers and some other staff at my school know that I'm an aspie because they have to. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have bothered to tell them.

No they don't! I think that many of my teahers think I'm an idiot because I am slow at things and have terrible writing.

In my school a few know, but most ignore it.
A funny thing happened in my chemistry because my teacher was wondering how I was in set 4 getting A*s with a target grade C, so I told him I had autism, he said really?, so I just replied yeah I have aspergers, and then he just laughed and said ah yeah well thats why then, you aspies are geniuses
It made me laugh a lot, especially to find out that he himself has ADHD and knows the term aspie, which greatly surprised me!

Mum told head of sixth form, one of my business teachers. I think some of my other teachers have probably guessed. They often talk to me like you would for someone younger than 18, and I like that. It's easier to understand.

No, but I once asked my physics teacher if he thinks I have it and he said that he's not sure, that he just saw if briefly on TV. I don't think a lot of people know what it is. My best friend knows too, but again she's not sure what it actually is. My physics teacher said that I look normal most of the time, except sometimes my emotions don't show enough and my thinking pattern seems to be very different from everyone else.

Well, only the principal and the "GT coordinater" officially know, but today in health class, there was a discussion about sucessful social interaction which I swear was aimed right at me.The teacher and other students talked about how uncomfortable they feel when someone doesn't use body language and facial expressions or make eye contact. Guilty!

it would benefit you to tell them, it's not like it's a dangerous secret. they can't force help to you either, only if you want it.

smaller class sizes helped ALOT in high school for me.

Most of my teachers don't know. The only one who knows is my English teacher, and that's because it's sped English.

I don't really think the rest of my teachers need to know. It's in my file, so the principal and the guidance counselor know. Any teacher could look in it and see that I have it, but I don't it matters.

My parents actually visited some of my teachers individually to tell them about Aspergers. Emm... While that is embarrassing, I do see why they did that and think it could be a good idea, as the diagnosis probably isn't on my records. In my school district, I believe that with an IEP one can only graduate along the "minimal plan" which is essentially vocational, and requires counselor approval to explicitly follow! Not good at all.

i don't see how many of you are saying no... if you have an IEP the teachers are aware of it.