this is a blog to inform people of my story of growing up with autism, and how I figured it out, and was diagnosed as an adult.
Friday, March 2, 2012
dealing with teachers
The last post was kind of what I feel like when I deal with Teachers. I had an experience these past couple of weeks with one of my midterms. Being diagnosed with Autism has made it in someways easier and harder for me. Dealing with Teachers now consists of always going through Disability services. One of my teachers will not make any exceptions on how the assignments are administered. I don't know if I've mentioned this or not, but I am also coming from a family full of teachers, and I have had many discussions on some of the Tactics that Teachers sometimes use in their classes. One of them from this particular teacher was that he asked 4-5 open ended questions to improve writing skills in a midterm setting. we were asked to give a specific view point and back it up with footnotes and readings. This maybe fine for some people but for me it was not because in my mind he asked a vague question and wanted a specific answer. In the mean time I felt like I had to explain constantly where I was coming from, and that hopefully he might try to see where I was coming from. Like most college Professors, he didn't really care, and told me to go through disabilities services I went through them and got things straitened out, but in the mean time I recognized that this Professor had not updated his teaching skills in a long time, and that I was falling under the same potholes that others did years ago, when dealing with a system that did not work for them. My teacher's thinking was that well, he made it through, so he can use the same process on others. it doesn't always work like that, and for that reason other's like me have been beaten out of something that they could have been better at.
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