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

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do they?
no 37%  37%  [ 67 ]
yes 31%  31%  [ 57 ]
some 29%  29%  [ 53 ]
none of the above(somehow) 2%  2%  [ 4 ]
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30 May 2009, 5:12 pm

I think all of them would know considering it is put down on my Individual Education Plan.


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30 May 2009, 6:51 pm

I think all my teachers know I'm different in some manner, but not all of them know it's Asperger's. I'd rather they knew it was Asperger's or just not know because I've gotten patronized a lot, tbh.
I don't know how many people know in my class, but I think everyone knows I have special needs, which is kind of annoying because it's made me view them in a different way, and the way they wind me up I'd never do to someone with special needs, tbh. It's also left me paranoid, and I've decided I'm probably going to alienate everyone who talks to me, LOL.
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08 Jun 2009, 1:44 pm

I'm pretty sure most of them do, they have confrences at my school for kids like me. Sometimes I'm suprised at the people who know I have it. Even at my vocational studies program they knew I had it.



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09 Jun 2009, 10:11 pm

I've spent my whole life learning how to look, act, and learn like a normal child, so I don't even know if I'd be diagnosed Aspie. I do know my teachers wouldn't believe me, even if my favorite time was hanging out with my Autistic nephew. For some reason I could always chat with him and have fun, and teach him things even though he supposedly had a disorder. I just told people they were doing it wrong, and that he was a really smart kid.



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12 Jun 2009, 11:41 pm

Nup :D Not a single one. Niether Primary or Secondary. It's still a mystery for all the teachers. In general, only a few people that are not teachers know about it.


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16 Jun 2009, 11:08 am

When I was in school, my teachers didn't know I had Asperger's, but neither did I at the time. All my K-12 teachers knew I was (at the time) diagnosed with ADD, and was on a very well known psycho-stimulant. I think some of my elementary and junior high teachers may have realized ADD wasn't quite what I had, but I left that school in 1994, so, Asperger's wasn't really a diagnosis available at the time.



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16 Jun 2009, 9:44 pm

A few did. My Chemistry teacher knew for sure...I think my English teacher knew (I DID do a paper on Asperger's Syndrome, although I can't remember telling her outright), as did the English teacher in my junior year (but he was scary...long story). I told my History teacher at the end of my junior year, I think. He was awesome. Too bad he has to move away; I'm going to miss him even though I've graduated. Seriously, he was a good guy. :cry:



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18 Jun 2009, 2:06 pm

Nope. And none of them have suspected it, as far as I know. At least, they never bring it up at parent-teacher conferences. They just think I'm shy. I'm polite and I generally follow the rules, so they don't care.



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18 Jun 2009, 6:06 pm

I think some of my teachers do know.

I always ask my mum "do my teachers know about me" ?

My mum and I have a meeting with one of my teachers that i have for 3 subjects.

We talked about me having Aspergers and how i fit in to my class.



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25 Jun 2009, 3:21 am

None of my teachers knew I had it...I didnt tell them..and even if they did find out, they can't do anything now since I graduated high school and had just completed my first year of college in paralegal studies.If my college instructors found out, Im not sure how theyd react.The fact that I had successfully completed my first year with high marks, will actually work in my favour but I dont want to say anything because I dont want special treatment.I didnt disclose my aspergers for the reason I didnt want to get things because people would feel sorry for me.I wanted to earn everything coming to me and prove to everyone that even though I am on the spectrum, I am capable just as everyone else is.


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25 Jun 2009, 3:37 am

In high school, I kinda had no say about whether or no my teachers knew. Basically, if that teacher had me, they would know. It grinded on my nerves, because I sometimes couldn't tell whether or not they were doing something just because of my autism. Pondering this only added more complexity to my life, which I really didn't need.

My college teachers don't know; I never gave that information to the school.



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26 Jun 2009, 11:23 pm

My teachers do not even care to want to know. All they know is I get extra time on exams and assessments. I'm being treated, sometimes worse (discriminated against by one of my year level coordinators as everytime I say something, he just raises his voice at me and tries to find faults in my words and actions. Other NT people are not treated like this as I've observed. He treats them normally), than an NT person, as they think I'm intelligent and thus, do not need any guidance and help. But in reality, I am struggling following instructions and taking down fast spoken notes.



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27 Jun 2009, 4:19 pm

Yes, they do. In other ways it wouldn´t work. And almost all my friends knows it too, and it´s not a big thing actually. They often accept me for the person I am.


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03 Jul 2009, 1:24 am

Most of my teachers at college don't know, but they know I'm registered through the disability program, so I'm sure they know something's up. XD



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03 Jul 2009, 1:24 am

I few of my teachers knew because my parents told the school without asking me first. Helpful though because none of them knew the specifics so I used it as an excuse to skip half each year.



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06 Jul 2009, 11:31 am

Not at my current school, and the fact that I am extraordinarily good at almost all areas of English and other subjects that similarly focus on the use of language means that they probably wouldn't believe me.