Communicatively Handicapped

nocturnalowl · Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 5:12 am Post subject:

I would like to know if anyone was diagnosed in school as being a communicatively handicapped student before becoming diagnosed with AS/HFA. Because that is what happened to me while I was in school, leaving me in Special Ed. Programs during my whole K-12 curriculum. I never informed the school about my condition until I was in my Sr. year so it was a little too late and there wasn't much they could've done.

The part that upsets me is the fact my lack of communication did screw up my ability to excel in language courses, and even history courses. But then I drop to the Spec. Ed. courses which didn't help me at all and I didn't learn a darn thing since a majority of the stuff was a piece of cake. So I get sent back up to mainstream and then I struggled again. I don't know what I was needed to improved. Should of I been assisted in communicating skills better, socializing skills, how to address myself and express myself; cause that along with my shyness, anxiety, and self-learning style really messed me up gradewise. I was pretty much sent back and forth in language classes but I never had my commucating and social skill problems addressed.

I still feel upset over this and wish that I had my skills improved. Maybe I would've gone to higher academic acheivement but now I don't know where to begin again.

I hope some of you here had social skill improvements in school, 'cause I never was able to apply or receive any. The system assumed that I was just another student who didn't conversate very well, but of course there was more than that I had to deal with. There was not a lot of autism awareness then, so what would have they done for me that could've worked? Mad