At 2 He Was Labeled Intellectually Disabled

[watersprite]

"At 2, he was labeled ‘intellectually disabled.’ He wasn’t. He has Asperger’s and now teaches students with autism

'John Miller, 47, is a teacher of language arts to students with autism in a mainstream setting at Watson B. Duncan Middle School in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Miller, himself, is on the autism spectrum, having been diagnosed while in college with Asperger’s syndrome...."'

The link to the article in The Washington Post, by Valerie Strauss:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...d-now-teaches-students-with-autism/?tid=a_inl

 

[qwerty]

i kinda relate to him as early in primary school the teachers thought i was 'slow'
until they saw the results of a standardized test and then they thought i was
crazy smart, then they gave me lots of tests to do and i rated in the top one
percentile of children in the southern hemisphere.

it was really weird going from being perceived and treated as slow to pretty
much being treated as 'gifted' pretty much overnight. really stressful and
confusing.

i am so happy for this chap, teaching children on the spectrum, his
experience will be so beneficial to his students.