Sorry for the big influx of asks and sorry for contributing, but i also adore your content.
I wonder, what it was like for you at school? And what happened after High School?
Hi anon! My experience with school was eh. I was homeschooled since first grade because my mother noticed how we were struggling in school and didn’t have the money or resources to send us(me and my twin) to a special school. Special education also wasn’t the best back then and still isn’t.
In highschool, I was involved with the local highschool for extracurriculars and clubs. I was apart of the school for a long time, and did everything you could probably think of, from band to musical/drama club, to a lot of other things! It was fun, but I got bullied a lot which wasn’t the best. I was noticeably different from the other kids, and got picked on because I was weird and too quiet and “creepy”.
People often said to me that they thought I couldn’t talk and that I had a massive resting bitch face. I was masking extensively throughout highschool, but my masking never seemed to work and people were automatically able to clock me as autistic or just generally weird and creepy. It was rough, and I wish I did a lot of things differently.
After highschool I didn’t do anything for awhile, I took a gap year and a half and didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. I STILL don’t know what I want to do with my life really. So, my mom and me contacted my local OVR because we heard about their college program and the person automatically thought I’d be a good fit and do well in it. So now, that’s my goal. I hope to leave in late April/early may and I will be living there for 16 months! I will graduate with an associates degree, and hopefully do something with that degree. I’m really excited and I hope it works out.
I’ve recently come to the conclusion that I want to work with other autistic people, and make advocacy a job for myself. So I hope this degree can steer me in the right direction and help me. Is it a degree I 100% want to do? No. But it’s free college and I’ll graduate with experience and hopefully resources to steer me where I want to go.
