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How was school for you?

Homebird

I have noticed questions by carers about their children during lunch breaks. This got me thinking of my own experience.

I left school over 40 years ago and it is only in the last few years I realized I was autistic.

When I was at school a lot of lessons were quite formal which suited me. However when it came to lunchtime as all the schools I went to were nearby I went home for lunch. In the Junior school quite a few people went home for lunchtime which was nearly an hour and a half. Most occasions when I stayed it was for a club but I didn't like being at school for the whole day and especially the long lunch break.

I wonder if modern schools are more of a challenge for autistics.

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  • in reply to Homebird

    I remember being tutored before I was held back and I guess it didn’t work. I was very young so I don’t remember a lot of it. But from what I do remember is that one year I stayed behind while everybody else progressed. They were in the class next door. Everything else being the same except that. It was almost as if like nothing happened. I knew something happened!!

    I should add that in the 1st grade I came down with spinal meningitis. I missed some school. It was explained to me that I was just unable to catch up. I never bought it though as I wasn’t held back till 2 grades later and I was tutored after the illness. I remember my mother getting extremely frustrated with me “not getting” things. But in my mind it was “yeah but I’m thinking about THIS” whatever that was at the time.