Paraprofessionals

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I detest them thoroughly.
You know, the ones who sit in your classes and stalk you. Just because you have "Asperger's" and an IEP.
I don't even need them, and they boss me around constantly. It really pisses me off.

Anyone else?

This is a difficult situation, because the paraprofessional wants to do something, does not want the embarrassment of having nothing to do, so they do something---at your expense.

One thing, and I really learned this working at H&R Block when I overexplained to clients at the beginning: Less is more. And many artists know this. In fact, Block convinced me I have the social skills I could have become a doctor. Alas, I am now 48. (H&R Block is also an unethical company because they don't want you to meaningfully inform your clients of the potential of third-party bank collection on their bank and loan products. I went ahead and informed my clients anyway!)

Maybe if you said to the paraprofessional. 'You know, I can do a lot of things on my own. And it is good for me to do things on my own.' Maybe you'd need to do this in the context of a sit-down meeting. Maybe you'd need to have a parent present. A lot would depend on how reasonable the particular paraprofessional is.

Maybe other people can come up with better ideas.

Ask them to fetch coffee or your dry cleaning.

It depends on who it is. I have had some that I liked, and some that I didn't like.

I will admit that I have a "special room" at school called the "babababababa room" for no reason whatsoever. I just like to call it that.

I had one person who wanted me to be in the room at all times. I remember my dad told me he wanted me to go to class once and I told her that and she said do "whatever makes you happy". I said well, my dad wants me to go to cl-" She said "whatever makes you happy again."

She also didn't respond to me unless I said her name. She assumed that I was just talking to myself if I didn't say her name. That was a little odd and hard too remember, but it wasn't that bad.

I stopped working with about a month and a bit into the school year. I still encounter her sometimes. Once, my regular person was away and she called me to let me know. I went to the room where all the SEAs (as we call them) and special needs kids. (Typically more severe than me, I don't usually hang out them). The SEA I was working with before told me to go and talk to my teacher about it. He had nothing worked out so I went back. There was a girl that I don't get along with leaving the room at time. I decided to sit in the room until they got something worked out. The SEA that I don't like shooed me out. This is what happened after (I am "A", she is "Q" and the girl I don't like is "M"):

Q: A, go to your room.

A: Why?

Q: Because this is M's room.

A: She isn't here right now.

Q: She will be coming back.

A: Well, I'm still allowed here.

Q: Well this is M's spot, she has her spot, you have your spot, go there.

This person is nice to everyone except me and maybe one or two other people.

I haven't had any major problems with any other SEAs, except a few subs.

There's so many kids that seem to have autism/AS so much milder than me on I.E.P's, doing behavioural therapy or on special diets. When I was a kid I was just told I was weird and that was it.
Anyway, just tell your parents and teachers that you don't need it. Or even say you've outgrown the need for them.

Is this the UK education system?