Published on 12, July, 2020
I was talking with somebody who got offended because the school won't allow "stimming" for students. Lol, I remember back then, when nobody took child psychology seriously and the primary school teachers used corporal punishments as teaching tools. I remember some kids, probably on the spectrum, that received so many ruler strikes on their finger that they ended up bleeding all over. More than one had to leave school because "they won't stop fidgeting". The other kids used to bully them horribly afterwards, since the teacher used to vent their frustrations on us after having their way with them. I wonder where they ended up, with little education and loads of untreated mental issues. No wonder so many people of my generation are totally mentally fouled up.
Was that a thing, back then in UK? I wonder if it was only linked to my s***hole country. I was born it the 70's, by the way
I started school in 1967 , I had a delayed language development condition and I was almost totally mute until the age of eight. I was subject to daily beatings by teachers at my primary school, often twice a day sometimes three punishment beatings in one day. When people talk about the good old days or them being the best days of your life. I want to cry and scream.
yes, back then schools had no space or money for SEN classes or teachers, so each class had one child that would have needed assistance. Instead, they got daily beatings and continuous teasing from both teachers and pupils. I was already aware that there was something wrong with me, and I lived in terror to be demoted to "corner kid". So, I was always the first and the most violent when administering the beatings. The only people that were exempted were the Down syndrome guys, they were built like brick s***houses and twice as strong. There was one Down that one in a while got bored and started beating up guys double his size. Down strength is crazy, lol.
Judge Dredd said:I was already aware that there was something wrong with me, and I lived in terror to be demoted to "corner kid".
I was that "corner kid" for several years during my nursery and infant schools. I never did understand what I was being 'punished' for but I eventually had to learn to suppress my meltdowns and hide my distress
Judge Dredd said: back then schools had no space or money for SEN classes or teachers,
Back then knowedge of autism and other neurodiverse conditions was nearly non-existent so without knowledge that you may have had a brain that worked differently you were treated in relation to how you behaved.
I'm not condoning the beatings but the techers in that era were often ones who had been through the war (the ones aged over 40 anyway) and were probably pretty messed up themselves.
It was a difficult time to grow up different in certainly.
I guess I learned to mask early in order to survive but still got the "strap" when I fell in with a bad crowd at school. I guess I was lucky that I also worked with my family in their building business so my hands were tough as old boots and I could stare the teacher in the eye as she tried her hardest to get a reaction from me.