This Irritates Me!

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I ride the bus to school everyday. I sometimes catch it at the last second, but rarely ever miss it.

I am always late because of my aspieness. I have to follow MY precise schedule, which probably isn't the best way to do things (I walk up and down stairs several times instead of one trip up and down), But I can't help it. Whenever I try to change my tasks around when I get ready, I always get messed up, upset, and later than usual! I wake up the earliest, I have the most to do out of all, but I still have trouble catching the bus.

But today, I was at the door, all ready except for my coat. My brother and sister were watching out of the door looking out for the bus. (It stops at our house, so we stay inside until it is near) And as soon as we saw it, I put my coat on, my mom told me to turn off the lights as I walked out the door, so I was a few steps, but not that much farther than my siblings.

But as soon as my brother and sister get on the bus, she closes the door. I was about two feet away from the door at that time- if not less. The driver, looks away, and drives off without me.

I don't understand why she did that to me! She has never before confronted me about how I am sometimes late for the bus. If the issue was time, the least she could have done was said something to me!

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ur brother or sister didnt tell the driver to wait for you? or to stop the when the he started pulling away??

Oh man, I'd be sooooo pissed.

Hmm... Have you tried writing down your new, more efficient task list and actually carrying it with you? Or you could memorize it; but either way, having it pre-set helps. That makes it predictable and keeps you from having to design a new routine on the fly, and reduces anxiety about putting a new routine in place.

The only other solution I can see is actually getting up earlier, which I imagine you would not be particularly happy to do.

As for the bus driver--people often assume we are getting their "obvious hints"... I wonder if maybe the bus driver was giving you that kind of hint, and thought you would get it. If so, she was rather rude not to actually talk to you about it first if you were literally two feet from the bus. That's close enough to touch it...

Maybe she was trying to teach you to be on time. Not keep her waiting.

I talked to her that afternoon, and she said she didn't see me...odd, I was one step away from the bus...

I left it alone at that. But if she can't see something that close to the bus, I don't think she should really be driving...

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Ummmm, as a bus driver, if you were as close to the bus as you say you were, then you probably were in the blind spot of the bus and the driver really did not see you. There are many blind spots on the side of the bus. That is why the students are taught to walk away from the bus when getting off and the drivers are taught to count the students who got off and then do a count of all students once they can see them and not move the bus until the counts match.

In once case, a driver did not get the correct count and went outside to see a 5 year old clinging to the wheel in order to get a "ride" to his/her friend's stop.

Also, it does sound like this driver is doing you a favor by waiting for you unless this was something mentioned to her at the beginning of the year. I was a stickler when it came to time.

That must have sucked.
It sounds similar to me as I have to follow a precise schedule. My luck is that because of my Asperger's I was put on a taxi to school, and the driver is not allowed to leave without me. Although I am often a bit late in lessons, yet strangely my teachers don't complain.

Anyway, the day he got left behind, he was ready on time.