Aspies For Freedom

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You are right. As someone who has been a teacher, I apologize to you for the nature of the educational system as it is.

I truly do.

If you have something to motivate you, you might be able to put up with the bad stuff to be rewarded with the good stuff.  I put up with physical education and English literature -- those subjects I hated -- so I could get to university.

The clue might be your special interest and finding a way that you could study that or do some career with it.  What is it?

Figuring how to get there is the next step.  You might have to put up with school for a while or find some way to homestudy or alternative study program (Maybe even to get a physical education credit).

There are times when it helps to sit back and remember that one very well could be surrounded by clueless wanks who simply happen to have all the guns, through merest coincidence. Yes, they're wanks, but they're wanks with all the power. Bide your time, plan your global conquest.

DogBrain Wrote:

There are times when it helps to sit back and remember that one very well could be surrounded by clueless wanks who simply happen to have all the guns, through merest coincidence. Yes, they're wanks, but they're wanks with all the power. Bide your time, plan your global conquest.

You sound just like my son Big Grin .

When I was a kid, my mother worked for the Department of Mental Health, one day I went into work with her and saw the place she worked. It was one of those big old asylum buildings, with bars over the windows, big heavy wooden doors, and people running around screaming. The place looked pretty much like the set of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Any time I came close to having a serious meltdown since then, my mother told me that that's where the state would put me if I let anyone believe I was going insane. That pretty much scared me straight.

GetExcitedItsMik Wrote:

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I have enough credits to be a sophomore in college.
By the end of the summer I'll have enough to be a junior.
The only reason I'm in high school is to get a 1/4 credit of 'Physical Education' (for those of you who aren't in the US, this means that you run around throwing balls to teach you how to humiliate other people).
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Let me get this straight.  You're being held back from college just for PE?

I've already ranted about the uselessness of PE on this site so I won't get started again.  I wish I had something useful to tell you, but I'm afraid I don't.  Except maybe... I don't suppose they'd let you substitute another, extracurricular, activity for PE, or perhaps get that credit on the college campus instead of the high school campus, would they?

Alot of bad stuff can happen in PE classes, creating bad memories that can haunt one for a lifetime.   Sad

garmonbozia Wrote:

GetExcitedItsMik Wrote:

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I have enough credits to be a sophomore in college.
By the end of the summer I'll have enough to be a junior.
The only reason I'm in high school is to get a 1/4 credit of 'Physical Education' (for those of you who aren't in the US, this means that you run around throwing balls to teach you how to humiliate other people).
...

Let me get this straight.  You're being held back from college just for PE?

I've already ranted about the uselessness of PE on this site so I won't get started again.  I wish I had something useful to tell you, but I'm afraid I don't.  Except maybe... I don't suppose they'd let you substitute another, extracurricular, activity for PE, or perhaps get that credit on the college campus instead of the high school campus, would they?

Alot of bad stuff can happen in PE classes, creating bad memories that can haunt one for a lifetime.   Sad

B-b-but all you have to do in PE is show up and run in circles occasionally. I liked most of PE, and I'm totally incapable of throwing any kind of ball with any kind of force or accuracy. Except with a lacrosse stick. And you get to play dodge-ball sometimes.

I mean, they even pass all those girls who show up and stand by the side talking all class long.

Alias Pseudonym, did I ever get a chance to tell you about the last PE coach I had? The one who came to work drunk and kept a few whiskey bottles stashed up in the ceiling of the field house?

It wasn't so much the sports I was afraid of. It was the other kids and the stupid coach. I was just glad to get through it without getting assaulted. The grade wasn't even for the sports, it was for changing your clothes before and after class.

normally_impaired Wrote:

When I was a kid, my mother worked for the Department of Mental Health, one day I went into work with her and saw the place she worked. It was one of those big old asylum buildings, with bars over the windows, big heavy wooden doors, and people running around screaming. The place looked pretty much like the set of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Any time I came close to having a serious meltdown since then, my mother told me that that's where the state would put me if I let anyone believe I was going insane. That pretty much scared me straight.

Yeah, I was in one of those. Every bit as bad as you imagine, and then some. *shudders at the bad memories*

Thing is, though, going insane wasn't a voluntary trip. The gremlins shanghied my mind, and by the time they fled, that's where I was. And no, they don't believe you when you tell them that you're perfectly sane. (I used to say, "when you tell them that you are just as sane as they are." Having been there to observe firsthand, I realized that was not a statement in my favor Tongue .)

GetExcitedItsMik Wrote:

Hey all,

I recently went through my breakdown... still am actually... Sad

I checked myself into the hospital... everyone's saying "If the rest of the world is saying you're wrong... then you probably are..."

Let me give you some insight:

I'm a senior in high school.
I have enough credits to be a sophomore in college.
By the end of the summer I'll have enough to be a junior.
The only reason I'm in high school is to get a 1/4 credit of 'Physical Education' (for those of you who aren't in the US, this means that you run around throwing balls to teach you how to humiliate other people).
I am not behind, I could have, in fact, graduated as a junior.
I managed to get my senior English and Civics credit as a Junior.
My grades are ***.
I'm always bored.
I feel that I am being held against my will.
I am supposed to go to Rochester Institute of Technology for college next year.

I am so depressed that I have to sit in 7 periods of being bored bored bored. The principal at my school is a total ego-tistical son of a ***.

I don't know what to do.

Please give me suggestions!? Am I wrong for feeling like my fundamental rights are being violated. There's only a few weeks left at school but I'm feeling like I'm in prison for a crime I didn't commit. I keep asking myself what Thomas Jefferson would do...

My 11 year old son has said the same thing - I agree with him and you - they stopped making him do gym - you can opt out of that - they say you can't -they tried that this year 5th grade - must have gym - must change for gym - from setpmber to march 2008 all the nonsenser that my son also  says is where some people get their kicks throwing balls at others... "they" told us (his parents) it was a requirement - it isn't.
Are you an aspie? or officially medically diagnosed as anything that lets you have either a 504 or and IEP?(US terms for being "classified" with some kind of disability) if so, you have all you need to opt out of gym - beware of trying to graduate without full matriculation - GEd's sometimes are not equal - I learned this on this forum and reserched it etc.,3
I am sorry for your trouble - as far as being bored for 7 hours a day and all.  We may have our son only do 1/2 days next year - that is an option we have - (we make ourselves - aprents the squeeky wheel, pain in the ***, paperwork backing up their inadequacies type - and if it makes their jobs easier - being as our son is classified - we can get away with it.
I feel bad for those who have no diagnosis - who must tolerate being sheep, being treated basicly with no respect - as kids whose opinions and facts are ignored- as worse than second class citizens (US anyway) with no rights.  Our son asserts his rights - and luckily we are rich enough to back him up.  (I was bored, bored, bored in school as well - I am a non-aspie and thought I consider myself atypical _ know exactly how it feels to KNOW that you are wasting your time - and just check out of the system mentally- advice, look out, your brain may soon atrophy if you don't find something to do with it - Also, I have heard that you can start college courses while in high school - so as not to waste time - perhaps look into that?
Peace and good luck!

The one thing I wish I'd known when I went into the hospital was that if you stay in your room, they take it as a sign of psychosis or depression... you are supposed to be in the dayroom with the stupid TV going all the time, instead of reading and journaling in peace and quiet. Go figure. Also, if you are going to have a meltdown, go to your room. They are less likely to pin you down if you're someplace away from the other patients.

I couldn't deal with PE either. Just couldn't. I was hopeful for a while when the school offered alternatives (like golf lessons) but in the end I talked mom into taking me to a doctor who was widely known as a quack, in order to get a doctor's release from attending PE. I said it gave me a stomach ache (true). Maybe you could try that.

I think atypical had good ideas. One semester of highschool they gave me a class schedule of 5 study hall periods. Only 2 classes, one in the morning and one at the end of the day. I knew I'd go nuts with boredom so I went round to the teachers of my favorite past classes and asked if it was okay to sit in and audit their class. They all thought it was fine. The principal yelled at me when I went with my counselor to ask for the change. "You students have to stop making all these changes." In the end, i was able to audit my favorite physics class a second time to keep from being so bored.

Is it possible to get your schedule changed so you only have to attend in the morning and go home? Seniors used to do that at my school, especially if they had a job.

You could take (another) college course at whatever time of day gym and other boring classes or ones you've already covered and then have half a day - someone up there in the thread mentioned the get a job - alot of kids in highschool did "vocational" and wer only at school for a couple of classes a day.
(my sons gym grade is ONLY based on whether he changed his clothing, too) But changing clothes was upsetting to him - we had him stop that first - now he can go to gym or not - whatever he wants - he can do "independent" study instead of gym, (or woodshop). He also took "art" more than once - and early in the year instead of gym 4 times a week, we made him only have it 3 times a week and during Tuesday gym, he had like a study hall... you have to follow a path to get there, but you can get what you want....

GetExcitedItsMik Wrote:

The only reason I'm in high school is to get a 1/4 credit of 'Physical Education' (for those of you who aren't in the US, this means that you run around throwing balls to teach you how to humiliate other people).

I don't know what to do.

Please give me suggestions!? Am I wrong for feeling like my fundamental rights are being violated. There's only a few weeks left at school but I'm feeling like I'm in prison for a crime I didn't commit. I keep asking myself what Thomas Jefferson would do...

I went through something similar. Refused to change for gym. Refused to participate in any ball game. Played goalie in field hockey for a while because the ball rarely came to my end, but I couldn't stop it when it did. Did competitive walking for a while, but got headaches. Major blow-up when my future sister-in-law became gym teacher.

Compromised by becoming an 'official' at athletics ... keeping score, speeds, distances etc.

If you are into computers, perhaps you could develop some software that would record and keep stats for the class/school ...

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