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Ask awayI am a Special Education Resource teacher. I have several students with non-verbal autism. Sometimes it's hard to separate what is autism versus "normal" reactions to stimuli. I have a lot of questions.
sorry to hear they misdiagnosed you . Sometimes I really wonder about Doctors . Hard to find one who actually cares .I never went to special education, nor would I have wanted to. I was too "smart" for special education and too dumb for a class full of normies. Like many if not most women with ASD I was diagnosed until adulthood when my whole life just got really horrible. After all, I just have weird and intense likes and dislikes, problems with eye contact, say stupid and cringy things, and don't relate well to other humans. I don't flap my hands or rock without a rocking chair and I actually show emotions and facial expressions. I also have bad anxiety, and probably dyscalculia and/or non verbal learning disoder, but I've never been close to being diagnosed with that. I'm lucky to not still be living with being misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. The mental health care where I live is ABYSMAL. In fact it's worse than ever, now. As a result, I am a perpetually bitter and angry woman. Hope your day is not as unpleasant as I am.
Reminds me of my great grandmother saying I am evil because I left handed and never spoke much . But I told her she does not make sense because I just write with my left hand . Everything else including using scissors I use my right . The schools got mad too because they kept asking make a choice what hand are you going use . Pick one . I said no I will use both . Why do I just have to use one handHello, welcome to the forum.
I met a special doctor. My parents took me to see a doctor when I was a kid in the 80s because they noticed something was going on with me and they were worried. I isolated myself and did some other things, something was obviously not right. After looking me over for three minutes he gave me a pen and told me to write my name. Then he turned to my parents and said "your son is left-handed. So he's a little odd, it's normal for lefties, you don't have to worry". Doctor of the year. Because of that I wasn't diagnosed before I was 30.
this makes me more depressed if a spec ed teacher still doesn't know that what hope do i have that a paramedic in England will know anything about autismI am a Special Education Resource teacher. I have several students with non-verbal autism. Sometimes it's hard to separate what is autism versus "normal" reactions to stimuli. I have a lot of questions.
Hello and welcome. It is nice that you are seeking information here, and anyone that would like to better care for children who have challenges deserves warm support in my opinion. Like @Moogwizard said, I would ask away – you can start a thread about anything. Plus, there are many many extant threads to search through that may have answers you are looking for.I am a Special Education Resource teacher. I have several students with non-verbal autism. Sometimes it's hard to separate what is autism versus "normal" reactions to stimuli. I have a lot of questions.
Sometimes it's hard to separate what is autism versus "normal" reactions to stimuli.
Thank you for your works with children with autism! I wish I'd had a teacher like you thirty years ago. Granted, I didn't know I had autism but I was diagnosed with NVLD at a young age...but I still displayed other traits yet it took me twenty years later to find out :/I am a Special Education Resource teacher. I have several students with non-verbal autism. Sometimes it's hard to separate what is autism versus "normal" reactions to stimuli. I have a lot of questions.