have u ever had a fulltime aid

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when i was in elementary school from first to sixth grade i had a fulltime aid. was basically fallowed me around, watched me, and helped me with my work and made sure I behaved. I felt my aid did help me a lot in many ways however, in other ways i didn't liked being shadowed by an aid either. I reasons why i didn't like it was because i felt like I was singled out, and put on the spot of feeling different like there was something wrong with me because I was the only person i've ever seen or heard in my whole school career that actually had one. This caused me to feel upset and actually in ways made me want to act out and misbehave more because I felt like "well if I'm s hown that im have issues I may as way just plainly act it all out then." I do give my aid a lot of credit for helping me in many ways but I feel like having a fulltime aid maybe wasn't the best way to go about it because it kind of broke down my self esteem and made me look like i had problems in front of everyone but i guess that's just my opinion. Have you ever had a full time aid? If so did you like having one or not. What's your opinion on having people with AS having a full-time aid?

I had a full time aid and still have a full time aid through school. I like and don't like it. What I like is that know one teases me. Is I rock or flap people don't dare tease me in front of a staff member. Though that really killed my chance for making friends. I need my aid since I have a very hard to focusing and paying attention to something I am not interested in. My aid also helped me with reading which was something that I have and still struggle with. For 6-7 grade though I went to a special school. But I would much rather have an aid and be in a normal school then be in a special needs school.

That's exactly why I had an aid too. she also helped me in reading too. I struggled with reading a lot. In the begging of third grade i was still pretty much illiterate. My aid however got me past that by helping me learn reading through this one excellent "learn to read" program, i forget who it was by but they help you learn different words using fun contextes i.e. words with "oa" and "ai" sounds where like peanut butter and jeally sandwiches (the "o" was the crunchy peanut butter sound and the jelly was the silent a or i. Her helping me through that program was my corner stone in learning to read and i always feel greatful for her for doing that. Her re-examplaining things that teacher tough in class that I often missed due to my ADHD helped very immensly too.

I also agree about the fact that having an aid preventing you from being bullied. I never got bullied when I was in elementary school either because of it which is good because I consider my self a sensative person and i got bullied then, I probably wouldn't have handled it well.

Inspite of the downsides these are definilty some upsides inspite of it all.