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Perhaps the people deserved to be assaulted. The doctors did.

This is really wrong behavior on the part of the teacher, and I'm sorry this happened to you. And that part where she tries to isolate and ostracize you by bullying anyone treating you decently, that's terrible. That one she should be discredited and serve a three year suspended sentence for child abuse, or maybe actual jail time. And that might happen in a better world where we didn't give authority so much the benefit of the doubt.

And all this because you needed to hold a book up close ? ? ?

My guess would be that this teacher was a "be righter." That her ego got involved and she got into a mindset where her "being right" about a pronouncement was more important than the welfare of a child. So the question, what made her such a world class expert on eye problems that she's going to immediately have the right answer? And obviously, she didn't. And what was lost was her keeping a light touch and trying a variety of different things and rolling with what works. And treating you as a worthwhile member of the class and as a real and worthwhile person.

Dr Silverman sounds like an obvious quack who took the job for the benefits $$ the pharm companies have likely paid him for being a pill pusher.

It saddens me to see them not treat Petey with dignity.
As for Cindy, yes their are many lives or careers one can make with horses. Some bringing in much money, dependingly.

Actually, Dr. "Silverman" (and I think the author uses a pseudonym) might be an above-average doctor, and that's probably an even scarier conclusion. That to an considerable extent, this is common medical practice (just medicate and don't do anything else, or just medicate and don't ask follow-up questions)

What is lost is a respectful dialogue.

For example, if the ritalin is causing serious appetite suppression, for God's sake, listen to the child. At the very least reduce the dose, and/or try another medication.

And for the classic situation of a child not fitting in with a school environment, that's going to happen a lot with kids on the spectrum, and some schools might be more tolerant of kids being different and being themselves, but a lot of schools are regimented, authoritarian, all the rest.

Responsible adults can help, and parents, too. Maybe something as simple as letting the child sit in the back of the room reading a book on the same general topic.

My parents were not the greatest. With the exception of standing up for me in 5th grade, that was maybe the first and only time they stood up to the school for me. It feels like the last. The other times, they took the side of the school and later on, the work place, almost regardless of the facts.

And I still think there's potential ways of giving a child a chance to make contact with agemates where it's not so heavily about intellect, maybe music, hiking trips, art projects (all done with light touch and low pressure)