They ask you to write that much so you can back up your thoughts with reasons and facts of why you came up with this statement. But a lot of places have things to accommodate people that have a learning disability. SO the people that say you might not ever get into a collage are wrong it just might be Harvard or Yale but you can still get into a state school.
Not entirely.
I've heard that you only get specific ones. You can only get ones that will help you when you test or something.
I've needed a lot more accommodations in school but they never gave them to me. All i got was having extended time on tests and quizzes, the use of a calculator/spellchecker and work getting cut down.
I guess because I'm not as ritualistic as most people with Autism are, makes it a little less possible to get much to help. No one ever listened to me because what made me mad was in they always thought way too much over my abilities.
It was all like, "Oh, you know you can do this or you know you can do that." I'm actually a great writer but for me, it's something that can come only to me. If someone told me to write an essay on a certain subject, I'd be sitting there all dumfounded.
Sure, you probably think that since I can write these walls of text that it's not true but that's the thing. It's easy for me to share things because they are things that come from me.
Plus, I have to write things in pencil because I make more mistakes in pen then anyone I know. The problem with essays now is that you have to use pen or else. That's why I never liked doing them because you can't even use white-out. Essays have to be free of crossed out words, messed up grammar and everything.
It's something I can't explain very well. I really wish I could because well, that would such a miracle.
I'm good at english and creative writing but I only have a 2nd/3rd grade level in Math. This puts me at a lower level than most people who graduated high school. It also means that if I had a job, I wouldn't be able to handle money that well or be able to keep track of time or whatever.
I'm very good at reading things but if I read to myself, I can't remember what I actually read. If I read out loud, I choke on words and end up having to restate sentences a lot. It deals a lot with social interaction because when reading something out loud to a person, even when I know them, causes me to choke on words and become nervous.
What I'm trying to say is that what I come with as far as being good at school subjects, comes flaws that make that talent drop to a lower level of knowledge.
If you were to see me in real life, you would think of me as a normal average person. I actually look pretty smart for being autistic but you wouldn't know all my flaws, unless you spent your whole life watching me and seeing what I do.
I also have tantrums and I do call them meltdowns because for me, at 20 years old, it's not very normal for me to act out and carry on. I get mad easy and I do have a short fuse around my parents.
Yeah, that's just a general stand point of how my disabilities can impact on my life. I'm actually getting a benefit from SSI because I'm unemployed due to being what would seem more like moderate to severly disabled.
It wouldn't seem like it but it's almost always true.
I've seen things in newspapers and in TV show and news reports that people that have kids are opting out of normal booster shots. To try and stop them from maybe getting the learning/autistic behaviors that some people think the shots can give to their kids even though theres no definitive answers of the shots doing so. But even though a learning or an autistic disorder can be a hard thing to live with but in some ways its a lesser evil compaired to some of the things that the shots help to protect the kids from and the complications that can come along with the sicknesses stopped by the shots?
Yeah but that will also hurt the kids. Not because of not getting protection but if a parent registers their child for school, it will be much harder for them to attend. Without having any shot records or immunizations, even if its just one or two, kids aren't going to get into daycare or even get into school alone.
Of course, parents will also sue the school system too. If they really feel set that their child isn't diseased and yet it wouldn't matter because the parent would lose. I've had to get shots before in order to take child development, alone. Though, I quit the class later on because it was like, a day college...hard to explain but you could attend while being in high school.
The problem with it was that they weren't exactly very easy on students with disabilities, especially like me. I had to take a star lab because I failed math but passed reading. It was really stupid because they knew that I had a math disability and yet the same thing happened is they all think I can do things when I can't.
It's not that easy to do something when everyone tells you that you can. They aren't the ones with autism, ADHD, mental retardation and a slow learning disability. I am. I get stressed easily if I'm pressured to the point where I break down and cry. I've got so many learning difficulties that I've had a hard time with living a normal life.
I agree with that man. The way the world is, a lot of people also abuse these illnesses and classifications so they can remove repsonsibility from themself, for example "oh i dont have to do such-and-such because i have [insert illness name]", which is not good. Because then the people who REALLY have a problem, get overlooked. And the whole illness or problem as an entirety gets devalued. I don't like all this pidgeon-holing, and labelling. Your mind is your mind, as long as you're happy that's all that matters. When everyday tasks, or everyday life even, begins to become a difficulty for you, and you need help, then there's no shame in asking. But other than that, if you have no problem, then there's no need to worry about what you might have or not have or be or not be. It's what you do that matters. Or don't do.
That's not all true. Sure, people get misdiagnosed and will take the path of a disability to extremes, making it hard for some that really is suffering that disability, to get the help they need.
However, saying that your mind is your mind or whatever, it's still difficult for someone to cope with being disabled. There are things that we can't do and we can't do them if we aren't able to. That's like saying that a parapelgic or person who is in a wheelchair has the ability to get up and run, jump and everything.
It's not always the same principles because sometimes a person can't do something. Sometimes it's because if they say, have autism, they might also have another disability that can cause impairment.
For me, I can't do daily living skills. Sure, I can dress myself and take my own baths but I also can't cook, do my own laundry, do household chores and the like. I've probably been told a thousand times on how to do them but where I'm somewhat on the mild scale of mental retardation AND have Autism and a learning disability...
See, Autism makes it hard because I was never able to do those things over and over in repetition. So if I'm told to do my own laundry or try to cook things on my own, I'll start melting down and having panic attacks.
It probably seems like alot to be getting worked up over but it's not easy when you are autistic. Most children with autism will stick to their same schedule and have rituals that they panic on if they aren't down right.
While that does fall in OCD related, it does have differences because children with Autism aren't likely to wash their hands excessively until they bleed or make sure their doors and windows are closed.
It's because a person with autism has things that they do to keep them happy. They will do these things because that's what they have gotten used to doing over and over. So if you were to give an autistic person a broom and tell him to sweep the floor while he's probably playing a video game he might be obsessed over, then that's going to make the autistic person go into meltdown mode.
I'm always like that with my parents. I get really panicked if they don't do something for me. I'm not lazy, it's just I fear just everything around me that causes this panic to worsen.
I don't like cooking because I'm afraid of a hot stove. I don't like doing chores because it's never been part of my everyday schedule. I'm not as bad as severe autistics but I think I can range from being pretty severe. It all depends on the situation.
I think it's getting worse because no that I'm more aware of being autistic and having other disabilities, it's becoming more and more profound. There are things that I find I am unable to do and I know that it's form my disabilities.
When I had a rl boyfriend (I have an online on for disability reasons really) he was very touchy-feely and insisted on affection. While that would seem normal in a relationship, it was like hell for me. I was always getting
away from him because I didn't like cuddling or being touched. It became an issue but back then I didn't know it had more to do with the fact that I was autistic.
Even now, I still panic when my dad touches me, even though he is joking with me, I start to panic.
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