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im going to a special school for ppl with autism and AS as soon as i get out of hospital. im axcited becuz perhaps i wont be the failure of the class, and perhaps ill be good enough to get a job and not having to live outside.
my mom doesnt want me to go ofcourse, but i dont care she can try and change my mind if she wants to but it wont work.
has anyone here been to a special school, and how was it? good, bad, useful or just as sh***y as any other school?

I've heard good and bad stories. You probably want to make sure there aren't many in your classes that are worse than you, or have a worse attitude. If there are, it will hurt YOUR experience. ALSO, if most are worse than you, expectations will be lower, and treatment may be worse or just inappropriate.

hmm... i got no idea what it will be like. im just lucky the doctors have dropped the idea of sending me to an internate school... ill ask them tomorow alittle more about whats it like and so on..

Cool. A school for the autism spectrum sounds like...heaven compared to mainstream.

Mainstream schooling isn't that good for many of those on the spectrum, especially secondary and higher (grade 8 and onwards). We don't do that well with the "independence" of it all, i.e., multiple classes, multiple subjects, a need to "study" at home (homework or special interest? Easy choice), nearly everyone is a bully to some extent in mainstream, the overwhelming social environment, and what have you.

It's known that the more academic failures one accumulates due to the lack of correct education, the less likely they'll function in society (many jobs that fit autistic people have academic requirements).

well i failed school from the start. and now im 14 so whatif its too late for me?
my interest luckily is english (i live in sweden) so im even better than my teacher, even if im not that very good. so theres one thing in school that im good at, atleast. the sad thing is im usually drunk so i dont care to say a word during any lesson, exept for leave me alone or i dont care. i just hope ill be able to do better in this new school. i havnt been drinking eversince i got locked up actually, so if i just dont even start again i guess ill be able to stay away from it. but school is so demanding so i need to be drunk not to run away or just end up cutting myself.
im nervous.

i went to a school which was mainly special people but not officially a special school. i loved it but it was bad for learning which was a shame, best school ever though.

aha.... why did you love it?

the people there were great, its informal, it celebrates individuallity, i made some really good friends there and i was quite popular especially with the lower years, so i actually enjoyed school

okay.. sounds cool...

i hope your special school works out for you

thanx... i hope so to. its really my last chance. i think i will ruin it, but who knows... i might not.

think possitive, there will be more people like you at a special school and many might of had the same school experiences, so they should be more to grips with your sittuation and the teachers should understand you better. so like i said think possitive

hmm yes perhaps...
im not good at that thinking positive thing but im trying to change. yeah my teachers always hated me, they actually gave up on me and when they found a reason to get me put in hospital they must have loved it

maybe youll find it easier to think positive now that you have something to be positive about. and yeh some teachers are disgraceful i dont know how they let people like that teach.

yes i hope so.
yeah most teachers at my old school were crap. they only liked their personal favorites the rest they didnt care much about.
now i gotta go. thanx for the help.

There's lots of different types of special school,so they can't really be compared unless they're of the same type.
Some types of special school suit auties and aspies more than others,some have bigger classes than others.
Am recommend going to that one,if are not able to cope with mainstream,have visited the new school,had a trial there, and found it suitable,don't go without trying it first as might find it too hard to cope with.


Am went to an EBD/LD special school in Timperly/Altrincham,which had only a few students per class,and everyone had at least 1-1 support.
Did most classes that would find in mainstream school,although am did not have to do some [language/french and science],and didn't do the same certificates as in mainstream either.
Was eventually expelled at fifteen,due to not being able to get out of routine of missing school [had been kept off school for illness, and couldn't change the routine].
Thats' another thing about special schools,just because have difficulties or problems in certain things,it doesn't mean they won't expel or suspend for it.

There are some schools that technically are mainstream,but will take on all the children that all the other schools won't take because of EBDs,at one of the FE/SEN colleges am used to go to,it was based in a school called Broadoak,the majority of the students are supposed to be EBD or LD,and most people who attended the college who had obvious behavior/physical differences about them [autistic,downs syndrome,cerebral palsy etc] were abused on a daily basis.
It was made worse when one of the schools students was killed by another there in the play ground-they locked the side entrance where college students go through,and made all college students walk through the school building to get to the college-
through crowds of screaming abusive children who were looking for a fight.


Also,about failiure,it's never too late to learn,might even find because the new school is tailored to the difficulties and differences of self,that end up learning more than ever.
Better understanding of ASD to.