Craptastic morning

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I had to get up early to walk to school today because we were practing for the AP exam. I got there and sat alone. I though I was late (hah, I was the first there). So I wait an hour for everyone else to show up and we get started. The teacher makes me move up 3 times until I am sitting with everyone else instead of isolated like I wanted to be. Then he made me take off my head phones(I was using them to not hear the air conditioner and the ppl moving/breathing). So I took the multiple choice portion with relatively few issues. I froze a couple of times but came out of it. Then we got to the essay portion. I had an answer but then they started talking(he was giving a hint because of all the frusterated sounds)and I lost it. So....I sat there and my heart started pounding and my breathing got fast and everything got spinny. I sat there and tried to calm down for about 6 minutes. Then I jumped up, grabbed my stuff and left without a word. I walked back home. I feel like crap. I want to die. I am a failure.

WOW! You were STUDYING for it, so he should have let you do ANYTHING reasonable you pleased! ESPECIALLY since you have been diagnosed, I could understand them not allowing you to use headphones DURING the test, but not studying for it.


BTW it is failure, but I bet you knew that, or were you making a joke?

Also, is your mother treating you better after the diagnosis? I mean it shows that your perceptions ARE different, you are NOT faking, etc...

why did they not allow to wear headphones?

get a pair of ear defenders instead,these are far better than headphones if using just to keep sound out,and they do not look like headphones either so shouldn't be stopped from wearing them,get parent to tell them what they are for so they have no excuse-they should be treated just like any other disability aide would be treated [eg,hearing aid,guide or assistance dog..],even though headphones and ear defenders are not well known as disability aides.

You are not a failure.

I was in a similar position when I wrote my first 3 exams in the last weeks. Without mentioning my diagnosis, I said that I had trouble to concentrate by artificial light. I asked to be allowed to sit near a window.

(I also asked this to not have to sit in the middle of the room surrounded by noisy students. But this is hard to understand for people who don't know AS and thus I did not voice this reason.)

I didn't mention my diagnosis of AS (because that wouldn't work out here...). I also asked several teachers. If they would not have agreed, I'd have gone to the headmistress otherwise. That's what she's for to my mind.

I remember correctly that you are either right in a psych evaluation or already have the diagnosis of AS?

Of course, saying that you are are suspected to have AS or having the diagnosis can further support a demand like this. And make it more official and more difficult for the school to refuse.

They cannot disregard anyone's 'health issues' that when ignored would disable the student to do his or her best on an official exam!

This is what happened here though. I assume the teacher did not know why or what issues you have and what he must do to ensure that you are not disabled by place-arrangement and by refusal to use other aids.

I say health issues, because I find that to be the best argumentation for schools. It includes anyone from AS to hay fever to epilepsy.

They must make sure someone with epilepsy doesn't have a seizure caused by the surroundings in an exam as much as they are not allowed to open the windows when a student with severe hay fever in present in the exam. AS just falls in this 'health issues' category for the most school.

So... this wasn't the real exam and just practise? Then you must make sure your demands are fulfilled when you write the official exam.

I dont do mornings............EVAR.