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AUTISM And High School Why YOU failed in Class (HONESTY) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Hey guys, in this video I'm discussing autism in high school
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  and why you failed in class. Obviously not your fault.
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  All that's coming up. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  aspy world. My name is Dan.
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  OK, guys, so that is huge issues with high school and autism and
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  like the whole integration like before I did a video all about
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  preschool or primary school and autism right now.
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  If you're new around here, drop me a comment and let me know
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  where you're watching from and what you're kind of like your
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  background is. Do you have kids on the
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  spectrum? Are you on the spectrum?
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  Let me know in a comment in the comment section down below.
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  I read and respond to every single comment, so I'll be
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  super, super awesome. But before I did this video all
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  about preschool and how preschool, you know, special
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  education school is better and all this kind of stuff.
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  And it was good. It was a good video.
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  Then I got a bunch of requests over on Instagram and yeah, you
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  should totally check me out and follow me over in there about
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  high school. Now high school, very, very
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  interesting and especially interesting for me because I
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  attended high school in the 90s, so I started high school in 97.
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  Back then, I was undiagnosed with Asperger syndrome and ADHD
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  because they still were trying to figure out, you know, I had
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  been to see different types of doctors and therapists, and my
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  parents weren't really actively trying to push me to get
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  different diagnosis because they were, well, they just didn't
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  know how to, to be honest with you.
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  And so, yeah, they didn't. But that didn't take away the
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  fact that high school was difficult.
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  Now, I had huge issues in class. Like, I used to go to class.
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  I used to get. Actually, I was so worried
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  getting up and going to school would worry me because there
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  would be so many obstacles to overcome.
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  Like walking to school was horrendous.
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  Like before I moved closer to the school, I had to walk about
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  a mile or so from from my house to the school, and it was just
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  horrendous. It was kind of like that scene
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  in Beetlejuice where they opened the door.
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  Once they're dead, they open the door to the house.
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  There's huge sand monsters trying to grab them and eat
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  them. It's kind of like that seems
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  open my front door. So I just like run to school and
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  like a cold sweat and then get to high school and then and
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  you'd be around like kids, different kids.
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  And there would be, you know, they'd have conversations and
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  stuff. And I had no idea what they were
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  talking about or any of these kind of things that they do
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  because they go out, you know, to social clubs and do all these
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  things that kids do and they have all this lingo and this
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  kind of like a grown up attitude that they wanted.
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  And I was still there, just completely oblivious to all this
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  stuff and they didn't really fit in with those kids.
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  Now that was kind of like this, the social aspect of it, but
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  that did transpose badly also to the education part of it.
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  I mean, you think about this, I mean how many people can relate?
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  I mean, if you relate video, you've got to give it thumbs up.
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  So I know how many people relate to what I'm saying here.
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  But when, you know, when you're looking at a blackboard or a
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  white bottle or smart board, whatever it is you're looking at
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  and the tutor, lecturer, teacher, whatever is explaining
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  something to you, what do you do?
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  Do you listen to them talking or do you focus on the blackboard
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  or the whiteboard or whatever it is?
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  And so, so there you have a huge communication issue because
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  you're like, oh, am I supposed to be writing these now?
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  Nothing. So I just to sit there with my
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  mind completely blank, like, no idea.
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  And it was just completely just it was terrible.
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  And it wasn't because I was bad at school, you know, And like I
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  said on a video before, like, I have a degree in chemistry now,
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  if I was bad at school, I would never have been able to do that.
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  But it wasn't me that was bad at school.
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  It was the school being bad at understanding my needs and my
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  learning types because schools are very much a they're they're
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  an environment where people have a tendency to to just kind of go
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  with the flow, if you will. They, the teachers, kind of go
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  with the flow. They don't.
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  They don't kind of think outside the box.
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  They don't do the extra mile. Well, most teachers anyway.
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  Some teachers do. You know, you might get the LTG
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  who want to do more and learn more about a specific thing.
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  Like if you're a teacher and you're watching this like, I
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  salute you, that's super awesome.
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  Thank you so much. And also let me know if you are
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  a teacher and you're watching this because that'd be super
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  awesome. I am.
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  I actually interviewed a friend of mine, Chris from SBSK, which
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  is special books by special kids and we were, we were in
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  Massachusetts together and we did an interview on my channel
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  and I'll try and leave that link down below in account of here.
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  And we spoke about teachers and their attitude towards special
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  education needs, specifically autism.
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  And Chris used to be a teacher and so he has a really good
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  insight on that and that's a cool video and I'll also leave
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  it on the end card so you guys can see that as well.
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  But in terms of the actual teachers understanding my needs,
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  it didn't work. So for instance, when I was in
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  maths class, because my learning type for maths was a bit
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  different to everybody else, I was more visual, but everybody
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  else was kind of like, you know, they wanted to listen to the, I
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  don't know, the weird format because there's some different
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  formats of mathematics. Like how on earth are you
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  supposed to know which one every kid wants, right, Unless you
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  take that time to individually assess every kid.
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  But most schools want to do that.
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  So I was dropped out of actually doing a GCSE, which is kind of
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  like a high school diploma score for mathematics.
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  I've put into this like special Ed class for math when I was in
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  high school and we didn't really do anything.
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  We just like found pictures of sport and equipment and like
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  circle the ones that match. I mean, it's completely and
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  stimulating for me, you know, it was just ridiculous.
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  And this is because the school failed me and the reason I
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  failed in those classes was because the school failed.
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  You're only as good as the school you're in, in the level
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  of support that you can access. When I went to university and
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  I'll do a video all about that, I have really good access to
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  support and support that was provided.
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  So those things kind of I could focus on the things that I was
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  good at and the things that I wasn't good at were helped with
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  support. So the things schools were
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  lacking and mainly high schools is a the education and training
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  for all the staff and be the support, the support network
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  that they're that set up to help those children or those those
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  young adults kind of come to terms with the tasks at hand and
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  then how to execute those in a manner where they'll understand.
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  It's all down to learning types. If we studied and sat down and
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  looked at people's learning types, we understand that there
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  are just so many different people like that that existed.
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  You know, autism spectrum, people's minds are spectrum.
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  It's not just people on the spectrum that will kind of get a
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  backhand slap from school. It's loads of people.
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  And I see this all the time. And another thing is like, the
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  school environment is really bizarre.
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  Like you're supposed to like sit down and you go out at different
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  times and the schedule for school is really, really
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  bizarre, especially when you think that, you know, everyone
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  has to eat at a certain time and every has to learn at the same
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  pace. And that's another thing.
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  The speed of learning is hugely distorted.
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  So, you know, everybody has different learning types because
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  I don't have different personality types and brain
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  types. So as as you're learning and
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  you're learning and learning and learning, some people may excel
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  and then some people may not excel in certain areas, but
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  everybody has to go at the same pace.
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  I mean, it's really bizarre. I mean, how on earth does that
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  work? So the schooling system really
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  needs to change. Which begs the question, is it
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  better to have neuro diversion children in special educational
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  needs schools or is it better to keep them in mainstream schools?
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  Now the argument there's good and bad on both sides of this
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  argument and we do discuss this in the video I did about primary
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  and preschools and I did a video just on autism schools.
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  But I think that regardless of which school you attend, the the
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  the effort should be placed on the children.
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  It's almost like when you go to high school, they're they're
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  focused on the curriculum rather than the kids.
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  And I know the curriculum is important, you teaching the
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  curriculum to the kids, but it's the kids who come first in this
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  matter. So how do the kids learn?
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  How does that kid learn? What does that kid need?
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  And once you figure all those things out, then you can apply
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  the curriculum in the format you've just figured out for
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  those kids. I mean, everything should be a
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  an interview process. Once you you start your first
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  day of high school that you interview, discuss learning
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  types and you'll have a personal learning plan.
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  I mean that that's like the logical way to do it, but nobody
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  does that. And it's it's a shame because I
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  feel like people miss out so much because like nobody, nobody
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  wants to learn. Like it's it's down to teachers
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  and teachers alone and the education establishment to
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  really figure that out and reassess it.
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  Because schooling hasn't really changed for like 2-3 hundred
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  years, you know, but the people progress differently.
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  So that being said, I'm not trying to say don't go to
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  school. I'm not also not trying to say
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  that school's a bad thing. School's an amazing thing.
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  We should be privileged, you know, We should realise that
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  it's a privilege to actually go to school because some children
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  don't get to go to school. But what I'm trying to say is
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  that schools also need to try and accommodate for people on
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  the autism spectrum and listen to the advice or just train
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  everybody up. And it should be mandatory
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  because it's kind of like, imagine you've had a school that
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  a wheelchair user, a child who is a wheelchair user, Hannah, to
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  go to that school, but there's no wheelchair access for some of
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  the classes. It would be appalling, right?
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  Because you don't have the, the support setup to enable that
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  person to do the course. So why do you have autistic kids
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  going to school when you don't have the ability to enable them
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  to do that? They don't have access to the
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  learning information? It's a lot to think about, but I
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  think it's something that we do need to think about and
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  something that needs to change ASAP, sooner rather than later.
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  But that being said, we've got a lot of work to do and there's
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  there's just so many things. I think that it's going to take
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  a huge change. It's going to take a big change
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  from a government and a social standpoint and also parents and
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  PTAS and all those kind of things to kind of move those
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  things forward. I know that there are autism
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  charities all around the world who are pushing in different
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  areas to help in these specific things.
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  And then of course, there are the development of special
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  education needs of schools all around the world that are kind
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  of, you know, set up in that way, where they do have personal
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  learning plans and personal learning needs for those
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  children. I think an integration between
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  the two from the mainstream school and the special
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  educational schools, kind of like merging together in the way
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  that they approach the education and learning of the style of a
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  child. I think that would really give
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  some momentum to the change and it would kind of bring about the
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  change that everybody would want from that.
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