with school starting up again can you make a post talking about your experiences as a hsn autistic in school? were you in public school private school homeschool etc? did you have any special plans like iep bip 504? how did the staff and peers treat you? did you find the work easy or hard? what is one thing you want lsn autistics to know about going to school with higher needs?
My school experience was overall not good. But for some reason i miss school anyway. I have done public school, home school, online school (IMPOSSIBLE for me), and a autism/DD specific special education school wich is were i graduated from at 22 (you can can go to school until 22 if your disabled).
Staff didn’t understand me a lot the times mostly. Peers were a mix i had some nice, some nice but baby talk me, some ignore me, some mean or bully me a lot espescialy when i was in elementry and middle school. I have had both 504 and IEP but IEP longer becase i needed wayyy more suport then 504 can offer including a 1:1 aide.
I also met with a BCBA (ABA specialist but she was actualy mostly nice!) and a counseler at school regularly. And an OT and speech therapist! I was waived from needing take the state wide testing exams for my state.
Lots of work was hard for me even when it was adapted to be ‘easyer’ and id have meltdowns over it even but some was to easy also! Also somthing people don’t talk about is restraint and seclusion at school when you have high/higher suport needs becase that happen to me a LOT. I want LSN autistics to know we did NOT “have it easy”. We were often treated like animals and other bad treatment.
I still miss my special needs school even thogh a lot bad stuff happen there. Maybe i miss having structure routine I don’t know why but I do!.
Let me know if u have any more specific questions!
