zenaspie wrote:
We had a girl who was bffs with an aspie in our grade and she tried to act like her. I heard people saying that she’s acting, so someone may try but they won’t fool others
When I was in a self contained class, I acted like the other kids in that class because I thought it was normal behavior there and that was how we acted there. Obviously I had my teacher fooled because she thought this was how I acted until my mom told her "She thinks that is acceptable behavior and she doesn't do this at home" because I brought home a behavior from school. Then after that, our teacher started asking us kids in class "do you do that at home?"
Obviously I wasn't the only kid in that class that was copying other kids and it reinforced it in me when they were doing it too.
I wouldn't say I was faking it because I didn't know any better and I wasn't trying to deceive anyone or gain anything in return. This is one of the cons for self contained classrooms. Kids will mimic each other. But to be fair, all kids do it but for normal kids, we call it peer pressure. For small children under age 5 and for special ed kids, we call it modeling or mimicking.
I was feeling the same and have been wondering how NT feel when they copy others. I think it’s much easier for them and they don’t get exhausted from doing it
10 Apr 2020, 8:28 pm
