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26 Apr 2007, 6:06 pm

Right now, my school isn't autistic-friendly.



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26 Apr 2007, 10:08 pm

I don't know of any other people on the spectrum in my school. I got hassled a lot in elementary school and middle school. By high school I stopped a lot of the things that earned ridicule as well as talking. No one bothered me and I left them alone. These days, I'm in tenth grade and I talk to friends, though I'm still kinda quiet. No one at school knows I'm an aspie except a couple good friends.
I'm feel pretty well accepted now by my peers, but that may be because I don't often exhibit things that would make me unacceptable or weird. It could also be that they talk behind my back.

Not knowing of anyone openly autistic in my school, I can't really know if it is autism accepting.



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26 Apr 2007, 10:09 pm

The school I went to was Autie-friendly, but not Aspie-friendly.



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28 Apr 2007, 8:19 pm

No.



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29 Apr 2007, 3:04 am

It seems like my school is antagonistic to autistic people.



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29 Apr 2007, 3:28 am

My class is both autie and aspie friendly but the rest of my school aint the youth of my school have no respect for there elderly :(


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29 Apr 2007, 3:37 am

Nope, definitely not. However, everyone there really likes me, even though they think I'm perfectly normal. The only problems I have are with the other special ed. kids (high functioning) because they're a bunch of immature jerks. I threatened lawsuit against one of them for attacking me, and they haven't messed with me since. My mom's on a suing spree right now and living next to two attourneys doesn't hurt! :wink:



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29 Apr 2007, 3:45 am

My school is pivate.

Bullies are expelled on second offenece.


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29 Apr 2007, 12:16 pm

no...I dropped out of school from harassement



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29 Apr 2007, 2:45 pm

Kilroy wrote:
no...I dropped out of school from harassement


That's awful. :( I think if things don't get better, I may drop out and get my GED. School is so hard socially.



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29 Apr 2007, 3:49 pm

My social structure of my college is a nightmare for autism.


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29 Apr 2007, 3:51 pm

My university is great. High school was hell though. Although, to be fair, I didn't find out about Aspergers 'till after I left.



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29 Apr 2007, 4:44 pm

for me-nowhere has been friendly to me...
school is terrible :( and I took a year off as a result

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30 Apr 2007, 10:21 am

My last school:
Teachers: yes, there were'nt many autistics there, but our principal and teachers did their best to support us.
Other kids: f**k NO!! !! !! !! !


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01 May 2007, 11:39 am

my old school, farragut (or faggut) wasn't so i transfered to a friendly school, bearden that has a specific program just for us


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05 May 2007, 5:02 pm

After I got diagnosed with AS my teachers started treating me slightly different (although I didn't want them to) and we have teaching assistants and a Support for Learning department who know all about it.