aspie teacher... possibly?

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my spanish teacher, in her mannerisms and miscommunications, seems incredibly aspie-ish. she has trouble communicating with us. she tries to be nice (always comes across as fake though, great big smile, high-pitched intentionally sweet voice, which i think it's because she really wants us to like her. then she snarls @ the person who comes in late) but soon she snaps when things don't fall into her strict schedule. it takes her a while to get organized so we end up spending half of the time just sitting there - if we're going to play a game (which i think she's intended for about half the class time) it is barely fit into the last ten minutes. she notices every little detail and gives out tons of warnings if people are talking- even just moving their mouths (she thought one guy was talking but he was chewing gum instead). she also has an unusual accent, kind of like a hybrid of midwest and new yorker, even though i'm sure she grew up near Boston and has stayed in this area all her life. she also tries to have convarsations with us but definitely has trouble communicating. don't get me wrong, she's incredibly smart - has a doctoral degree in languages, yet she seems to know more about the facts and the languages she teaches rather than actual life. she also misinterprets a lot of what goes on. she seems very lost in this school even though i bet she's been teaching for over 20 years.

don't get me wrong, i'm not judging her or anything, i just think she may be an aspie - a really bitchy one. it's not a bad thing - the aspie part is completely unrelated to how nasty she is. what do you guys think?

she sounds like an aspie.
I am actually studying to become a teacher. I was dx'd with AS when i was about 11 or 12.

that sounds like the 12th grade english teacher i had. (trys to be nice, extra high pitched sounds strained voice, NO SENSE OF PERSONAL SPACE, would spend a long time explaining things when we all get what shes saying!) she had her restrictions too, one of them was no adaptive devices. for that she was transferred and now is a autism advocate in nj at NJCOSAC (i felt bad for all auties and aspies who ever talk to her because she was going against the ada codes and antidiscrimination act). i feel that aspies and autits need the adaptive devices such as pencil grips and computers to do writing and small motor tasks its not their fault that their small muscles dont work the best and their handwriting is as neat as an archetect's (the school she taught at changed their district regulations and policies for special ed because me and a girl in a wheelchair complained about this woman's act)

another aspie teacher i felt was the technical school one i had for building and grounds maintenance were you would learn commerical building care and repair all this guy did was talk talk talk about plant and horticulture. (study of growing things) he was trained in landscaping and worked in a golf course and it took a while for him to realize that theres more to building and grounds then landscaping and mopping floors. (i said this because the building custodians didnt do much when came to needing something fixed and got the job of fixing all the doors out of it!) andgot the nickname doordoctor! after i graduated he changed his curriculum to all landscaping and some (maybe) some building care. i graduated from both technical school and reguler high school in june 2002. died in august 2003 of skin cancer. he has a big place in my heart because he was only teacher that understood the disabled and actually cared about how they feel when struggling with the teachers who assume what they can or cannot do.

Sounds like my high school french teacher!

I think my economics teacher last semester was an aspie. He had this wobbly stool he would sit on and rock, and play with the skin on his neck while we did work from the workbook. He also had no control over the pitch and volume of his voice. He had this obsession with motorcycles. He'd put posters of them all over his room and ride his to school. He never talked much, so I don't know much about him other than that.

I think my chemistry teacher might be aspi. He clearly understands all of our information but can have a hard time explaining it to us. It's like he has one way to explain it and if you don't get it the first time he dosn't know what to tell you. This paired with the lack of eye conant, constant shifting and fiddeling with his overheads makes me pretty sure he's one of us.

and their handwriting is as neat as an archetect's

Is that similiar to the 'You must be a doctor, I can't read your handwriting' stuff?

There are a couple of teachers at my school who may be AS or at least have a lot of the symptoms... one of the math teachers in particular. Unfortunately, I was never in his class, but he's a brilliant man and doesn't know how to communicate with students well enough to have them understand the material very well.

Most of the teachers I have had were very good with me.

I think maybe my psychology teacher, from high school might've been Aspie. She really seemed to understand the whole, learning differently thing. Much better than the clowns in special ed did. Also she seemed kind of shy-ish. I dunno, maybe it just was that she was one of the only teachers, that treated me decently in high school.