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

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It's hard to say but I'd say any subject teachers I had when I was in school did not know. It really wasn't there job to know. However, my special education teachers did know. When I say special education I simply mean the teachers I had when I was in the Learning Center which is for those who have a learning disability(like ADD ect). I certainly felt the most comfortable with my Learning Center teachers and I was able to talk to them very easily and they were very understandable. For my subject teachers however, I hardly ever talked to any of them but most seemed to be fine with me because of my good behavior. However, I did have one teacher in the 8th grade that seemed to have a big problem with me. Obviously because of her ignorance she had no idea about my social impairment and just assumed that I was rude and anti-social as she once called me. She hated my antics(I'd sit at my desk with my legs crossed, I always wanted to work alone and I was bad with group work). Once she called me anti-social in front of the class, she crossed the line and I went down the the principal's office personally and complained about her and said how I was hurt and how that was very unprofessional. After the complaint she was never mean to me again but she was just an example of that one teacher who clearly had no idea that aspergers(hell, maybe even autism) didn't exist and was in total ignorance.

It's on My I.E.P. (Individualized Education Plan) so yes they know.

Even if I'll tell them,i think they wouldn't care 'cuz they don't know much about Asperger Syndrome....and besides I'm still an NT(as of today)..The diagnosis is still in process and I doubt if it will be AS cuz i think it's PPD-NOS.(PS:I'm trying my best to escape my psychiatrist..I don't need a diagnosis..I love myself more than anything else )

Well, apparently all my teachers are given a sheet about me and what 'special needs' I have. Whether the teachers take any notice of that is another matter--they probably get all sorts of things sent to them that they don't have time to read. Some of them obviously know, and give me all kinds of patronising special treatment, while others don't seem to know and treat me just like a normal child. Or maybe they know that I prefer to be treated like that.

The pupils don't officially know, though most of them have probably caught on that I have some kind of special needs. They probably don't know that it's Asperger's. One boy did once ask me 'Are you autistic?', and I lied and said no, because I didn't want everyone to bring their judgements about autism as well as all the judgements they make when seeing me.

I go to a special school, so they kind of have to know...

They no my acomidations the dx idk.

None of them actually know because it's not diagnosed officially. I think some suspect it though, my society and environment teacher, my english teacher, maybe my math teacher...

...They know if I tell them. My school has the information, but the teachers don't.

They we're supposed to know, but my Counselor is incompetent and therefor told no one.

Mine Do.
Not that they care or understand though.

Only one teacher knows, he has a son that has AS so he's the only one I feel comfortable talking about it with.

Nah. I know I do, since I seem to fit into most of the criteria, and it seems the people posting here actually feel like I do for once, but I gave up on parents/teachers/school guidance councilors helping me somewhere between fifth and sixth grades. Can you believe that I dealt with a school guidance councilor one year, and an out of school one the year before and nobody ever noticed anything? Yet most every single kid in my whole grade could at least say that there's something strange about me!
By the second week of sixth grade, I concluded that adults were useless. Though somebody's probably going to guess soon. It's more noticeable since I switched schools.
The only thing a formal diagnosis would do is change my school's view of me from "I'm strange" to "I'm officially strange". How helpful would that be?

In the name of Holy Satan, nobody revive this thread again.

If they don't know, I tell them. They don't treat me much differently because I'm in the smart class but my French teacher lets me have my loner seat I always sit in (she was worried about me having trouble in pair groups I told her "I can move"). She didn't find out til after but one of the cool guys told me to just stay there so I did. I would have hated being in another seat and hated even more having to sit next to the other kids (don't mind them but some subjects I prefer to go solo). And my Maths teacher lets me fix the date if I notice it's wrong because I prefer stuff correct. I was worried people would write down the wrong date, probably an irrational fear but I just wanted to help the other kids. She told me when I told her I had it that day that she knew because a student teacher who'd been in told her so that's why she lets me do that stuff but others she'd tell to sit down. So it works pretty swell. Also my P.E teacher said I didn't have to do a poster for my Hauora (it's a Maori thing. Physical, Mental, Spiritual and something else in balance). I got to do an essay instead. Some kids would say that's boring but I enjoyed writing about me more than a poster and got top marks for it whereas a poster would have only gotten me a pass. So it works out for me.

It's my school break at the moment, but all of my teachers last year knew. My PE teacher even let me sit out but I know it's going to be different this year... My English teacher also knew and gave me extra time for projects. The only teacher who didn't know was my History/Geography teacher... and she was really strict too.

None of my teachers know, I can do fine without them making exceptions for me.