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How many other autisc: special needs people went to your

ZebraAutismo

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Was their other autistic/ special needs individual at your school. I went to a main stream school but it seemed to have more SN individuals then a lot of my friends school.

Their was 80 ish kids in my year.
- 2 other girls diagnosed with autism (both great friends of mine)
-2 diagnosed autistic
-A girl with a agrigruposis, hearing issues and learning difficulties.
-A girl with a muscle wastage condition.
-A blind girl
-A girl with one eye
And around 5 kids with learning needs.

Now i’m writing this it seems like a lot. I never thought this was weird.
 
I'm not sure why you're asking or how relevant my answer might be. From looking at your information I guess you've just graduated from high-school or the equivalent this year, probably in an English-speaking country.

I finished high-school in 1986, and being an aspie wasn't really a thing. I was just considered weird, but smart enough that I could get through the academic part of school more easily than most, so didn't require special classes. I went to two different high-schools, both in somewhat rural areas on either end of a single school district. These schools started earlier than the central schools in the district, most kids would arrive by bus. The special needs kids would arrive on the same buses, but then take other buses which went from the outlying schools to the biggish city at the centre of the district where they had special needs things.

I guess other school districts would work differently, and maybe the one I was in has changed significantly in the last 30 years. I don't know how true this is, but have the vague impression that there are few schools that have an average number of special needs kids. Teaching them is (or was) more of a specialized thing than teaching is usually, so just as kids are grouped together to learn and the population in a school doesn't represent the average within our society, so the special needs kids are grouped together for learning and that population doesn't represent the average within the schools.

Edited to add - this was in British Columbia, Canada
 
Yep that’s what she had. Only ever heard her say it never seen it written down.

You did good figuring that much out about the word.
I have never seen or heard the word, although
I have seen people whose joints were bent.
 
I'm not sure why you're asking or how relevant my answer might be. From looking at your information I guess you've just graduated from high-school or the equivalent this year, probably in an English-speaking country.

I finished high-school in 1986, and being an aspie wasn't really a thing. I was just considered weird, but smart enough that I could get through the academic part of school more easily than most, so didn't require special classes. I went to two different high-schools, both in somewhat rural areas on either end of a single school district. These schools started earlier than the central schools in the district, most kids would arrive by bus. The special needs kids would arrive on the same buses, but then take other buses which went from the outlying schools to the biggish city at the centre of the district where they had special needs things.

I guess other school districts would work differently, and maybe the one I was in has changed significantly in the last 30 years. I don't know how true this is, but have the vague impression that there are few schools that have an average number of special needs kids. Teaching them is (or was) more of a specialized thing than teaching is usually, so just as kids are grouped together to learn and the population in a school doesn't represent the average within our society, so the special needs kids are grouped together for learning and that population doesn't represent the average within the schools.

Edited to add - this was in British Columbia, Canada
I have thing for statistics and reliased after talking to my friend my school was likely an anomaly and wanted to see if this was the case.
 
You did good figuring that much out about the word.
I have never seen or heard the word, although
I have seen people whose joints were bent.
She was quite open about it and use to talk about it. You learn a lot eating a lunch with a person for 5 years.
 
It’s been a while since I was in high school. Back then autism wasn’t diagnosed as often. Plus, the school system in my country seems a little different from what I understand about high school.
In my country, there’s several difficulty levels in high school, so to speak. There are many large schools that teach a range of difficulty levels. However, I was in a school that exclusively teaches the highest difficulty levels. (6% of the kids in high school manage to complete these). That being the case, it’s pretty rare to meet kids with learning disabilities in a school like that. I don’t recall ever seeing any of those, or anyone with a visible disability.
 
It’s been a while since I was in high school. Back then autism wasn’t diagnosed as often. Plus, the school system in my country seems a little different from what I understand about high school.
In my country, there’s several difficulty levels in high school, so to speak. There are many large schools that teach a range of difficulty levels. However, I was in a school that exclusively teaches the highest difficulty levels. (6% of the kids in high school manage to complete these). That being the case, it’s pretty rare to meet kids with learning disabilities in a school like that. I don’t recall ever seeing any of those, or anyone with a visible disability.

Spectacles?
 
How many kids went to your school? If you went to a classroom-sized school with something like 30 kids, I might agree that 8 students with special needs seems like more than average. All the schools I went to had hundreds of students, so 8 doesn't seem like very many to me at all. (Or do you mean just the students in your class?)

I remember other kids with special needs in every school I ever went to (including at least two in gifted programs); some were in my grade, some in other grades. There were probably a lot more of us than I was ever aware of, because so many conditions are basically invisible.
 
I went to two school districts and was placed in a SN transition program for two semesters... and the amount of special needs cases varied from different cases, some of them noticeable, others not noticeable at all. So it's hard to pinpoint an accurate number of the people within my SPED background throughout the years.
 
How many kids went to your school? If you went to a classroom-sized school with something like 30 kids, I might agree that 8 students with special needs seems like more than average. All the schools I went to had hundreds of students, so 8 doesn't seem like very many to me at all. (Or do you mean just the students in your class?)

I remember other kids with special needs in every school I ever went to (including at least two in gifted programs); some were in my grade, some in other grades. There were probably a lot more of us than I was ever aware of, because so many conditions are basically invisible.
80ish kids in my year
 
I was in the "Unit" during the secondary years with people of various disabilities. Suffice to say I hated all 5 years of it
 
When I was at school in the UK in the 70s and 80s, only the more severe cases were diagnosed and taken out of mainstream school, but there were 'slow learners' or remedial classes for those who struggled. If you had behavioural issues, you were just treated like a naughty kid, and disciplined. My school wanted to put me in the slow learners' class at one point, but my parents were against it, so I stayed where I was.

In my year group, there were two other students who were not special needs, but just a bit different: one girl with quite severe dyspraxia, though I think she was only recently diagnosed, and another boy who was most certainly gifted, possibly also on the spectrum.
 
I've always been in private special needs schools for those with autism. So pretty much all my life I've been around far more autistics than "nts". Which I believe has given me a perspective many others don't have.

Some students like me had other problems along with autism.
 
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- 2 other girls diagnosed with autism (both great friends of mine)
-2 diagnosed autistic

Back in my day, autism wasn't a really common diagnosis. Those who were diagnosed with it didn't really talk about it, because nobody knew what it was, and because there was also a stigma attached to having any sort of disability. So, until I was an adult, I didn't know anyone whom I knew for a fact was diagnosed with autism, only people who implied that they were.

-A girl with one eye

I have met several people who were missing one or both of their eyes. Usually if they're missing one eye it's fairly subtle because the quality of prosthetics is way better now than it used to be. I'm not sure if I only notice it because I'm so detail-oriented, or whether everybody else notices it and are too polite to say anything. Either way, it's probably not something they want to talk about, so I don't say anything.
 
Spectacles?

Strangely enough, I wear thick glasses IRL, but mainly just to find my way to my contact lenses in the morning. I don't wear them too often because they are annoying (too heavy, too much distortion, somehow still not strong enough). So no, even bad eyesight isn't really a visible disability.
 

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