Reply #30: No, they can't help it at all, my son's an aspie. [View All]

[liberalhistorian]

It's actually always almost been more frustrating watching his treatment at the hands of teachers and admins who don't and refuse to understand him than it's been watching his own frustrations. Because they should know better and because just a little encouragement from any teachers goes a LONG way for these kids. They get enough judgment, intolerance and dislike from the world in general, often including their own families, and will continue to do so throughout their lives; they sure don't need it from their own teachers.

I have little, if any, patience for teachers such as this. Not only can the students not help it, but, unlike the teachers, they never get a break. It's the way they are, and it's exhausting and often depressing for the student and they can't ever take a "break." Everyone else around them can.