Emran
Emran
I am supposed to say something polite when I meet you, not stare or make a comment about what I am thinking – or so my teacher says. Those sorts of rules don’t always ‘compute’ in my head, and that’s why the people I go to school with call me the brain. My mother thinks it is because I am very clever, she doesn’t understand it’s an insult. The social skills group I attend at school says I must tell you things about myself:
I have Aspergers – this is what the fact sheet the psychiatrist gave my mum said. She just thinks it’s something she did when she was pregnant because she wanted to go to college not have another baby. Because I am supposed to share I’ll tell you what Aspergers is in my world.
A – Attitude: do not expect me to want to join in your world. You won’t mine
S – School: I choose not to have friends, and they choose not to be mine
P – Personal: I have never met anyone else with Aspergers so it must be personal to me
E – Enjoy: I like my world especially when explored through my avatars. They understand me: I do not enjoy the world that has too many changing rules
R – Routine: Do not interfere in mine it makes me angry I will resist.
G – Games: I don’t like them – the physical ones; don’t ask me to join in.
E- Embarrassing: Although this doesn’t bother me my family find the things I say and do embarrassing.
R – Resistance: is futile I will not be assimilated.
Go to this website and hear people's stories of Aspergers: http://www.healthtalkonline.org/Autism/LifeontheAutismspectrum_Parents/People/Stories
As you listen to each story, record what you have learned