Aspie teacher?

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Has anyone ever had a teacher who might have been an aspie? I think my science teacher may be, she is brilliant but acts very aspie-ish. She used to be a biochemist, made all the money she needs, she teaches now because she got bored.

Sounds like she's one.

I wanted to be a professor or teacher when I'm done with college and grad school.

There are a number of teachers in the Visual Effects and Animation departments here who I would not be surprised to find out are aspies.

well, me (college) and i can go thru the building i am in and identify
three other faculty that must be. at social events we all stand on the
periphery not looking at each other.

my grad school advisor, in hindsight, was very aspie-like. he was the
only faculty member who understood me and he ushered me through
the system. would not have made it otherwise.

fg

Hey, don't you love the new aspie character on Lost? I think he's a sweetheart. I really hope nobody kills him.

Oh, about the topic. I read somebody's story about how he was in a college math class when he heard Kennedy was shot (every one of us boomers have a story about where we were). The class was getting agitated while the professor was writing an equation on the board, and he turned to ask what the disturbance was about. A student told him that Kennedy had just been shot! The professor asked, "What does that have to do with this class?" And he turned around to continue writing the equation. The storyteller refused to take another math class for the rest of his life.

My HS physics teacher. Definitely. Either that or he was too intelligent and absorbed with physics to bother with others and being social. How many people out there like to talk about nothing but physics?

I think I can ID a couple of teachers that might have been aspie. I had a physics teacher once that we managed to slide off onto a side topic and ended up talking about Jewfish for the next half an hour. (we used to do this to this teacher a lot) Never did learn much about physics in that class. but all sorts of other interesting stuff

I wouldn't doubt if an English teacher or two at my school are aspies, which is kind of funny to me seeing as everyone refers to their science/mathematical teachers.
Earlier I've stated that I'd like to become an Environmental Scientist, or something to that effect, but I'm terrible at math and science combined. English is truly my forte, as well as talking about it; lately I have played around with the idea of becoming a high school English teacher.

howabout environmental humanities:

http://planetaryblog.wordpress.com/

or environmental literature:

http://www.asle.umn.edu/

fg

I have teachers who act very autistic, their movements are extremely odd, but they're not autistic I think. With one, I'm not sure, but as she's already an extraordinary person that seems to fly in other spheres, she might just be weird in other ways. Whenever my philosophy teacher speaks to someone, she rarely looks them in the eyes, but instead closes them most of the time!

My English teacher usually has his arms when he is talking in front of the class, always somewhere close his ear, the one that holds the chalk makes weird hectic movement. But he's typical in any other sense, makes eye-contact, uses a lot of non-verbal communication I never get.

Odd.

I think my primate behavior professor could be, but I might be wrong because she was talking about a famous primatologist who as she put it, "suffers" from autism. Also I think that would have been the time for her to say she was autistic, so maybe that throws my suspicions out the window. I was kind of disappointed, but it still seems like she's on the spectrum in my eyes.

I also had a philosophy professor who could have been. She did tell us she had inattentive add. I liked her a lot.

i could see a science teacher being an aspie

I'm very sure my history teacher from high school is an aspie. He did things the exact same way from when he started teaching in the early 60s to when he retired in 2003, right down to the 50's typewriter. his extreme desire for routine and sameness as well as being a walking encyclopedia made him almost an institution unto himself. My senior year (2003-2004) didn't feel right without him, his retirement left a gaping hole in the school environment.

My chemistry teacher was a fully-fledged Aspie my junior year in HS, and he admitted it within the first week of school. He was one of the first people to show me how different some AS people can be. If you were getting frustrated with your work, he'd literally jump up onto your desk and shout for you to try harder... in a somewhat playful way.

One time, I got into a Martial Arts sparing match with him in the middle of class because I was on a downswing emotionally and he was getting under my skin. I swung, and he blocked and swung back. We started throwing around kicks and punches, but both of us were blocking everything we were throwing at each other. Eventually, we both stopped at the same time, caught our breathes, and started laughing. One person in the class said it looked like a fight on Dragonball Z. I loved my old private school.

I think my chemistry teacher might be a mild aspie. He's probably a NT but he's got a lot of aspie tendencies to his personality and he also has a son with AS. I also think my HS civics teacher might have AS. He will only teach civics, doesn't team teach with anyone, and eats pizza for lunch everyday.

ive been known to teach a bio lab or 6