Were you placed with severely disabled children as a child?

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I've always been in a significant special needs school. But in my case I belong in one.

I was placed in a specialist unit for violent children@14, after being expelled 5 times previously due to my disruptive, anti-authoritarian behaviour.

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No. I was placed mostly with children who were of much lower functioning intelligence than me but still functioning. There was one nonverbal but he was quite intelligent. No doubt if I went to special school today there'd be people with more severe conditions/comorbids who wouldn't have been recognised as being on the spectrum at the time.

I was placed in special ed in the fourth grade because I got tired of being bullied and no one doing anything to end it so I would physically attack my bullies (and even my teachers).

I was placed in a program with a lot of kids who had anger management issues. It was hard for me because they would lash out at each other and the staff and I would end up crying because it was far too overstimulating. Eventually, they placed me in regular classes with no supports, which I found even harder because I was bullied all the time and didn't have anybody to turn to for help when I had problems. My therapist at the program was great and helped me a lot with social skills. In regular school, I was always known as the "Autistic Girl" because there weren't any others, despite it being a fairly large school with 2,000 students.

My school wanted to put me in a behavior class because I don't think they wanted to deal with me anymore because their system they had for me wasn't working and I was working against it. I was being teased and harassed so I would get provoked by other kids and I was trying to be normal and be like everyone else and figure out the rules so the school tried to pin me as having a behavior and put me in such a program. Instead of protecting me and helping me, they were going to toss me out. My parents had to get an attorney and she gave them advice and told them what to do and what their rights were and what the law was and didn't charge them for her time. That was the first time I had learned about lawyers and the stereotype about them was debunked in my brain. I thought they were all bad people and the enemies because of what was portrayed in movies and people being happy when the lawyer was eaten off the toilet by the t rex. But now I know it's all a joke and I took it all too literal. Also that is what lead me to get the AS diagnoses. Everyone thought I had to toughen up.

Being in a special needs/resource class part time would have helped me, I believe.

I was never put in a special ed class. I was put in a BS "gifted" class because the school taught the same thing every year and I got bored and started reading in the middle of class. It was just throwing all the straight-A kids in a room after school with some Rubik's cubes and brainteasers. It was probably more insulting than putting me in with the more severely disabled kids. It was obvious they were just doing it to look good for their next inspection or whatever. As were a lot of the things they did in general.

I was always pulled out of gym class to play with the other kids in the special ed program. I didn't mind hanging out with them because they're really nice, but I wish I could have made that decision myself.

Schooled early, advanced placement, academic honors, was considered "different."

Yes as a teen and it was really awkward cos I'm touch sensitive and (sorry I don't know what the disabilities were) people were dribbling and unable to eat properly and it's hard enough for me to eat at the best of times. But I didn't know I was at all disabled (or that the other kids who were autistic or had mild learning disabilities etc were) so I felt guilty for 'picking on' disabled kids when all I was doing was not eating in front of people who were dribbling and spewing up their food.
I know it wasn't their fault but I genuinely couldn't handle it.
It was cos the alternative was putting me outside to be bullied. They could have expelled the bullies but they never bothered w that approach.
I also shared a TA with a cerebral palsy boy when I was 11 and had to sit next to him. Smart kid (not sure if it affects learning at all but it certainly didn't seem to affect his) but again, he dribbled or snotted on my work every day and I had to go home because I felt sick from my work having spit or snot on it.
I never realised I was considered 'disabled' so felt too guilty to just say 'look if my work didn't have bodily fluids on it I wouldn't feel sick and have to be sent home'.
I don't see why teaching staff don't just realise that autistic kids with touch sensitivity probably don't want to be around bodily fluids and it has nothing to do with disrespecting the severely disabled kids. In fact, in the case of the boy I sat next to, I had a lot of respect for him which was rare - I didn't respect many kids cos most of my classmates were intellectually delayed (although socially advanced) compared to me but he was a deep thinking, intelligent kid who knew a lot.

Straight on regular classes for most of my childhood. Any delays or even oddities I had were overlooked.

Not too smart or even serious enough to skip grades, definitely not dumb enough nor had any learning disability to be held back for it.
Unlike most posters, I excel on physical aspects more than academics, which made me more overlooked. Never accused a nerd or an idiot, but certainly not any less weird.

Never been a trouble maker, been favored over bullies -- they figured I'm just easily provoked and don't do stupid things for no reason.
Even if the stupid thing means disrupting the class, breaking items and properties, sleeping at classes and beating bullies off violently on broad daylight.


May never even encountered any severely disabled child of my age until age 10, when my social-emotional delay caught up bad enough to be spotted.
Been in sped-ed sessions very likely for nonacademic reasons for a year until circumstances didn't let me. Nothing was serious until age 14.

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I was in a special education class in first grade because I didn't know English when I started school. I was mainstreamed from second grade on.

When I Was 6 and 7 this did happen to me. The school I was put in was a known place where they dump all the serverly special needs from psychically to mentally disabled extent

There were no severely disabled children at my school.

Only during summer school.