Things you wish your aid knew about you

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I originally posted this in the general discussion forum and Ganondox nicely recommended re-posting it here and on the Parent's Discussion forum. So if you've seen it already, I apologize. I'm not trying to spam the forum, just looking for some useful information.

I've been working with adults with a wide variety of disabilities for the last 25 years. Most recently I've been working in an administrative function running adult residential facilities. I'm soon going to be leaving my current job as direct care and the work I get to do as part of a team creating and adapting behavior plans, ISPs and the like makes up far too small a part of my job. In the current stage of my job search I'm finding that most of the jobs I am interested in involve working with children and teens with ASD. I have worked with numerous adults with Autism (ranging from 30s-70s) but never children and rarely teens. What I would love to know, before I apply for even one job, is this:

What do you wish your aide/support staff/team knew? What bits of information have you found would greatly help someone looking to help you yet doesn't seem to be as widespread as you feel it should be?

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

I don't have an aid, but I do have a guidance councilor who is supposed to help me out even though she's technically the guidance councilor of an entire Grade. I really wish that I could explain to people exactly how school has been crushing me, but I can't seem to get through to them.

Is there something your counselor could do that would make it easier for you to explain how school has been crushing you? How exactly has it been crushing you?

I'm sorry school's been rough for you lately.