coming out of special education was hard work for me because i was only used to mixing with people with disabilities. I was wrapped up in cotton wool and doing D OF E was a good middle step into univercity. i said that to the person doing the interview but she got me and sam mixed up. Sam has always been in mainstreme school. it is quiet strange that me and sam are at the same abilites in a lot of stuff but i am considered to have special needs and sam doesn't. This however means i am entitled to more help then sam. this doesnt seem fair to me. what is the difference between someone with a.s.d who hasn't got special needs and someone who does?
There is usually a statement of special educational needs done in this country. The child is assessed to see what they need in school, for example a child might need speech therapy. Some aspies have additional conditions like a learning disability, but most don't. So that would make a big difference. Plus something like dyslexia could make a lot difference to help that they need in school.
This is all written on the statement and that dictates what help the child gets (in theory).
umm yea i supose but when i was in a special school they didn't know i got dylexia! so according to them i was just autistic. i went through a bad time when i was 12 though and then later at 15 where i had to go see a phyciatrist and have care that is why i got put in a special school my behaviour was so bad. Sam coped at school and she was stable untill she left where she had a break down. but cos she was older she wasn't entitled to the care i have now and it doesn't seem fair cos im older then her! she had to wait for a phyciatrist who deals with peopel with autism without speical needs. but in my case it doesn't matter it is what ever one can help me at the time. she said to was because the phyciatrist who deals with speical needs couldn't cope with her problems but that is strange cos me and sam are at the same level lol
i was in college before i got given the dignosis of dylexia. lol
also do you think that MIND understands aspergers and autism
MIND is for mental illness, and autism isnt a mental illness so I am not sure what they know about it.
there isnt' many places for people with autism to go for support so me and sam are under MIND. my social worker is understanding who is employed by MIND but the staff at the thearaphy place have no idea and wind me up summit cronic. i also don't feel it is good to mix people with autsim with people with mental health problems. how we meant to know what is "normal" if we only ever hang around with people with them sort of problems. autistic people also pick up on people with mental health behaviours and behave like them which can lead to mis diognonsis. i get paranoyed yea i know i do. having the possiblitiy to living with peopel with mental health problems made that paranoya worse. if i can't tell if someone is lieing how i am i ment to understand that they are deludid? one of my friends has scizophrina and we are just not good for eachother because i beleive her stories! i don't know where i stand as a friendship with her and she can't stucture anyting lol she is compulsive! unfortunatly that friendship ended hopefully we will meet again she can't help being the way she is but on that note nor can i! my friend got told by a self harmer that it helps get rid of all the bad feeling inside. he was autistic and got into self harming to extemes the other person who told him that was a self harmer without autsim but failed to realise what the consiquences it would have. he didn't have to social skills to do it privelty eather. i also have picked up on mental health behaviour and it is only with maturity do i understand that the way they behave isn't right and that makes them ill. i make a good friend for people with mental health problems cos im consistant but however they don't make the best friends for me who likes sameness.
Ideally you would have an autism/asperger group to go to.
Problem is there are hardly any around.
We would like more people to set up groups as the only ones seem to be set up are by NT parents to support each other.
there is one in coventry at a random time of 10 - 11 on a monday when most of us are at uni or college. i go on aspi village and they have meet ups sometimes