Aspertastic424 wrote:
What do you think about Aides if you have them? In middle school ( and elementery) I had them because I needed them. But I hated having them ( especially in middle school.) Just having them made me feel mentally impaired, and I thought the kids would not want to include me based on me having them. I was sometimes resistant to them, and My special ed teacher had to give me a talking to about it.
Just the thought of being in a resource room, and being "different" or having some "mental impairment" was hard for me. I was in denial about having aspergers, ( even though I had a diagnosis and IEP proving it) until early college quite frankly.
Does anyone here have aides? How do you like them? Feel about having them?
I have the same sentiments, I had a bunch of aides through 6th and 7th grade. Did okay in 8th grade and beginning of high school, then had to move to a 6500+ person school in my new town lol. That was hard.
Got a new aide for 10th grade.
Yeah, it does really make you feel alien.
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