Did the teachers react well to your aspergers/autism

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I always had very very poor support from teachers and schools. Most people are better off without their help. Just about any disability support here in Alaska is horrible.

I was undiagnosed. Some teachers realized that there was no way I was NT and were great to me, some not so much.

My second grade teacher comes to mind. She used to get furious with me about my handwriting- and I'm ambisinister. I also had issues with teachers not believing that I was really reading when they said to because I read so fast.

In elementary school I felt as if I had plenty of support, almost to the point where it was irritating. At the time, I was unaware of my AS and always thought there was something terribly wrong because I always had my teachers and para professionals giving me extra help. I felt singled out because of it. Now I understand my AS and realized that my teachers were only trying to be helpful and I appreciate them.

I don't get any extra help from teachers anymore because I was taken off my IEP plan at the end of freshman year. My case manager discussed this with my parents and said that I didn't really need an IEP. I'm sure some of my teachers know about my AS but they don't seem to single me out as a result. I'm graded on the same standards as any other AP student at my school.

Lets see.

2nd Grade I had a teacher who found my rocking anoying making her nervous all the time. She said it made me look like a mental patient. She actually at one point tied me to a chair to stop me from rocking.

4th Grade The teacher hated me for asking too many questions or adding more material durring class so she wanted me to be medicated with rittalin. Thank the gods my parents aid no.

9th or 10th Grade Durring a study hall an idiot set my shirt on fire and the teacher yelled at me for starting trouble in his class.

Not really, they did not diagnosis for Aspergers in the 70's when they mistook my autism for ADHD. Acording to the doctor who did my evaluation I was not even learning disabled. I was put into special education for 10 years getting a watered down education. The doctor's actual words to me was "You were pretty much cheated out of an education."

I went to school in the 1980s and 90s so Aspergers was hardly a blip on the screen by the time I graduated from high school. However in the school I went to it wouldn't have been caught anyhow. I went to a tiny private non-traditional school.

I got in trouble for crying too much, which I realize now were meltdowns, and of course I was teased and bullied for it (and other things). I had soooooooooo many meltdowns. Phys ed wasn't very active for me because I usually got out right away in games like dodge ball and kickball, then later soft ball. Unless you had a medical reason you were mandated to play sports. Girls played volleyball. I was a professional bench warmer for 6-12th grade. I somehow injured my shoulder during my 11th grade year and by the time 12th grade rolled around the doctor told me I couldn't play anymore. I was so happy and she was stunned because she never had that sort of reaction before from someone who played high school sports. My coach/teacher/principal was not happy about that but there was nothing he could do. Phy ed was out for most of the year too, oh bummer. I had trouble with my school work due to depression, sensory issues and general comprehension problems so I had a lot of detention and spent most of my days sitting in my little cubicle with just a break for lunch. It takes me a while but I can usually find a pattern in something which was the only way I passed tests. I didn't know much of the material, I figured out the patterns enough to get buy. My teacher knew this but there wasn't anything he could do about it. The geography course was so hard even the best students failed the tests. They (someone in the larger school association) had to rewrite the curriculum. I was one of the last ones to take the old version. I figured out the pattern to the maps and almost aced every test. I couldn't tell people how I did it until the last person took the last test (all of our subjects were self-paced). Overall school was hell and my teachers were not understanding at all but I found ways to make it through and graduate 2nd in my class (of 3 total people).

Same here. My mom was in denial that I had anything wrong with me, but made a point of making it clear to the teachers that I was very gifted. I am adept at school, very much so, and in the early years I was very good at it, but as a high school student I was well shut of the whole institution. I used to sit in class and read books for fun, and when the teacher confronted me about it and asked me to please pay attention in class, I acquiesced. The next day, I sat in class reading my book, and raised my hand for every question the teacher asked, and when called on, presented the correct answer.

He left me alone after that.