I'm too mental and slow to be a teacher?

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If it weren't for me not being "disabled enough" to get on SSI, I would never leave the house again. I'm so sick of ignorant NTs I don't know what to do.

Today at work, the subject of me being in school to get my teacher's certification came up. I already have a BA in journalism and want to be a special education teacher, hence me going back to school a few months ago. I've, so far, made nothing but As and Bs in my classes. Another co-worker overheard us talking and asked what I was taking up. I tell him and he says, "You, a teacher? What the hell you gonna teach?"

The other co-worker said, "Would you want her teaching your kids?" The guy then said, "No, if I saw she was the teacher, we'd pull my little girl right out." The other person defends me saying, now you know she's smart. The guy then says he doesn't care. He doesn't want someone all mental and slow teaching his kids.

That man is living in the past. Don't pay any attention and follow that dream. Keep your eye on the prize!

And we have social skills problems?That is horrible,what an ignorant jerk.I think that AS people might have some advantages in working with special needs kids.Part of the problem with education is that the teacher follows a rigid format that just doesnt work for every child.Being able to "think out side the box" could be very advantagious in this area,helping you find eifferent approachs for the childs needs.

I'm doing a good deal of teaching now,
and while I think that my social difficulties
get in the way, it's not too hard to simply
make light of them.

The only real worry that I'd have, is that
children would take advantage of you.
But, with a little bit of experience, you
should make a BETTER teacher than
an NAS would, simply because it's
more work to understand the emotions,
so you have a more rational take on
them.

I say don't listen to him and go for it!

Don't let them get you down. You've got great advice already. I just want to add that since you have the compassion to get into this kind of teaching, you're what the kids need! Best of luck.

Don't worry, people are stupid, so there's no need to listen to the majority of them

Thank you, guys. I've been really bummed out about people's attitude toward me. They only see my aspieness and not "me". I sometimes wonder if I'm human at all. The way they act, I might as well be another creature. Humans are allowed to be imperfect...but the same is never allowed for me.

Well, I think that if you are closeted about your AS you could do well as a teacher. Everyone has their quirks - as long as you don't label your quirks I don't think that parents will have an automatic excuse to fear you as a teacher. Also, it depends on the job market where you live. In Utah there is a really severe teacher shortage, so any warm body with a teaching license is employable. Last of all, I think that your not acting all ghetto and loud is probably a plus if you want to be a teacher - what may seem uppity to those people at your work would be considered professional conduct for a teacher.

The only commend I'd have to make about teaching and aversion to loudness/disruption is that you'll have to be prepared for kids blurting out "Tomorrow is grandma's birthday!" in the middle of a lesson. I have a friend that says it drives her nuts when kids do that.

Maybe if the environment there is so hostile to who you are, what you want to do and how you want to live, you should consider living elsewhere?

I once had someone tell me that I lacked the intellectual ability to homeschool my kids... : ( ... it really struck to the core and I believed it for a long time. I doubted myself at every turn. My GPA was 3.75 from an ivy league school.

Nirrti_rachelle,

Don't you work at taco bell? Consider the source, babe, and move on.

People are so goddamn ignorant and cruel sometimes. Not just NTs...everyone...let's not fall into the trap of name-calling here.

I remember the days when I used to get 'ching chang chong!' and 'you spikka da eenglish?' thrown at me. Yes, I'm half chinese. Born in Australia, expect to get treated as an Australian, however! Hell, my English is more fluent than half those mongrels.

Oh and then there's the fat jokes. No thought of whether that would be hurtful, or whether the assumptions and jousts were actually TRUTHFUL or not. I was actually alright at sport if I tried.

Nowadays racial intolerance has moved onto sexual and neurodiversity intolerance. Anyone different in these arenas is battling the same issues we different-coloured people were battling a few years ago.

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that these people are FULL OF s**t. They LITERALLY don't know what they're talking about. No, I mean it. What do they know? For all we know their idea of neurodiversity = ret*d. In fact that's probably the case. Little do they know that Aspies are often MORE intelligent than they are. So what if Aspies aren't quite so up to speed socially. That's about the extent of it for so many out there in the community, working away and being generally successful contributors to society

Ignore them. Again, what do they know. You are the only one that knows your true potential...the rest of us know that said potential is enormous