Autism and Aspergers

[Xx_Pixie_Dust_xX]

One of my friends' little brother has autism.I don't know how bad,but he's pretty normal.He's only a few years younger than her/me,so in the younger grades you could hear him taking a tantrum in the halls sometimes. I felt bad for her because it must've been embarassing to her. I know this because she'd put her head down on her desk.But no one in our entire class ever laughed,even the rude guys.My school had special classes and teachers to help the children who needed it,like my friends brother.

[AaronShadows]

I think I am, or it might just be an excuse concocted bye my mother so she can get away with keeping me within her sight or at least within another adult's sight 24/7. I certainly don't need to be followed around like I do. Do I look stupid? I can walk around a school without help, thank you. -_-

Vampire, get lost. Special needs children are pretty rare, actually. I once met a women who told me about an Autistic girl who's so great at poetry She's been published. Now just shut up. -_-

[Catlover642]

What is a special needs child? One that needs therapy? My brother has Autism, and he takes therapy. Though just because somebody nees Manestream help, that dosen't mean they are classified as a special needs child.

[TinkerBell1995]

A boy in my class has Autisim (he's so sweet & he thinks i'm his girlfriend). He has gotten all A's on his report card since I met him in the 4th grade. He doesn't act like a child, but he's jittery, he has many personality's & he can start crying on the drop of a pin. It's not that bad, and all the people with disibilities are super sweet once you get to know them.

[AaronShadows]

Me? Super sweet? Not true. XD I inherited my mom's argumentative skills. I'm about as far gone from nice as you can get if you argue with me. Oo

Starts crying on the drop of a pin? Aaaaw. xD Hug him. Hug him right nooooow!!! xD

This topic is making me laugh and go aaaaw lots. Rofl.

[Silent_Wolf]

There's this boy in my sign language class, I'm not quite sure if he's autistic or not but while he does cause quite a few annoyances (he constantly interrupts the teacher when his aide is off to lunch, and while he's not doing it as often he still needs to stop and pay attention to signing. x.x), he's got his good moments. Right now we're learning animal signs and the signs for their habitats, and to help us learn it our teacher brings in her grandkids' stuffed animals (with permission from them, of course. XD) and has us attempt to sign what animal she's holding up; if we sign it correctly, we get said animal. Then, when everybody had a couple of animals, we played Animal Thief, where she signed a clue and we had to find an animal that fit said clue.

There was an absolutely adorable dragon that practically everybody wanted to hug, and one kid (J) got it. (R), the kid I mentioned, also wanted, but he wasn't throwing a fit like he usually did over things like this. D, J's friend, was arguing with him about not putting his dragon down. The following conversation ensued:

D: You didn't put it down when you were protecting the pig!
J: I did so! And I wasn't protecting anything. I had my arms around the dragon like so. *puts dragon down and puts arms around it*
R: *ducks in, steals dragon from under J's arm, runs away*
J: ... Huh? WHAT?! No fair! *mix of and *
Teacher: *on floor, laughing*

I really think R was planning that. XD

[antimaie]

My littlest brother has Autism, and he is in the special needs program, but it is only really to get therapy. He is being mainstreamed into a normal preschool this year so that he can go to a regular kindergarden. My other younger brother has Aspergers, and he talks. ALOT.