I could scream....
Mar. 12th, 2004 04:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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http://www.neocolours.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7026
I don't care what this kid Jamie's going to do when he's out of school. Nor do I care what his teacher thinks he's going to do when he gets out of school. But it pisses me off that I had to explain THREE TIMES that he (teacher) shouldn't be saying "oh, he'll end up in a second-hand shop" either to Jamie or to anybody else. Maybe he will end up like that. Maybe that's where all the signs are pointing and this guy really knows everything. Maybe the sky is falling, and I never noticed. He still doesn't have any right to tell that to other students, and he doesn't, I believe, have an ethical right to tell that to Jamie. Talk about setting up your basic self-fulfilling prophecy!
And moggy? Stole your Seuss idea... I couldn't think of any openly autistic authors who don't write about autism, not off the top of my head. Sorry about that.
I don't care what this kid Jamie's going to do when he's out of school. Nor do I care what his teacher thinks he's going to do when he gets out of school. But it pisses me off that I had to explain THREE TIMES that he (teacher) shouldn't be saying "oh, he'll end up in a second-hand shop" either to Jamie or to anybody else. Maybe he will end up like that. Maybe that's where all the signs are pointing and this guy really knows everything. Maybe the sky is falling, and I never noticed. He still doesn't have any right to tell that to other students, and he doesn't, I believe, have an ethical right to tell that to Jamie. Talk about setting up your basic self-fulfilling prophecy!
And moggy? Stole your Seuss idea... I couldn't think of any openly autistic authors who don't write about autism, not off the top of my head. Sorry about that.
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Date: 2004-03-12 02:22 am (UTC)I mean, I'm pretty ignorant - a family friend has a mildly autistic kid, and I've read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (which I'm sure has led to an epidemic of people thinking they know all there is to know about Asperger's), but even I know that autistic people can be tremendously high achievers (there's a famous example of a man who got a double first from Cambridge and is trying to redefine autism as a condition, not a disability).
Moreover, surely any teacher should know that telling a kid they are condemned to doing an undemanding/low-status job because they are autistic (or mentally ill, or a certain colour or class) is just not acceptable.