Aspie question: Is that wise for me to become a teacher?

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Hi user:

I am currently working as a teaching assistant in the kindergarden. It is a job that I like however it is getting harder and harder every day because the noice in my class is driving me crazy! (My hearing is actually extrememly sensitive if my mind is calm. I could listenting to the TV well enough even through my parents could not heard a thing!) Although I managed to just hang on (8 months already), but it is getting worse, anyone have any suggestion!

Celiacheung1985

Some people here on WP find earplugs to be helpful. I haven't tried them myself. Welcome, and good luck!

As a TA though... can you really be out there with earplugs?

In teaching there are a lot of different levels/groups you can be a teacher of, so perhaps children aren't exactly the field for you at this time. There may also just be the time necessary to get used to the level of interaction/noise. Give it some time.

i'm in college to become an educator. my specialty is early childhood and intervention specialist [special ed]. my field experience this semester was working with kids with varying degrees of autism, aged 9-13. the teachers i worked with never knew i'm AS and they never questioned my ability to work with the kids. i actually work really well with them because i know that if i don't make eye contact with them, if i don't use good social skills with them, etc., no one will. and i had to fake it till i made it in terms of hearing sensitivity, usually they were pretty good because they hated loud noises too. i was told by the director of student academic services [aka special ed coordinator] that i should quit now because i'd fail--guess what? i have a 4.0 gpa. it CAN be done. keep with your dream if you think you can do it. =] and of course if you'd like something quieter, etc. you can always move to another grade level. i believe in you!

thank you so much! ajleclerc.....

Hi Celiacheung1985,

I too have difficulty coping in noisy situations - my family know to quieten down when I put my hands to my ears and plead 'sensory overload!'. However, I worked for 16 years as a teacher, initially with hearing impaired young children, and later with pupils who had profound and multiple learning difficulties (up to the age of 19). If you would like to work with children, but find over time that the noise level in classes of younger pupils (I'm thinking below 7 years) remain intolerably loud for your sensitivity threshold, perhaps you could look at working with older pupils or with pupils with special needs (where class sizes are usually smaller, at least they are in the UK).

Hope this helps