Autism and school. The first system to fail us.
Most Autistic adults carry some version of school trauma. The setting failed us early, and it failed us consistently, and many of us did not recover the relationship with learning that we might otherwise have had.
Most Autistic adults carry some version of school trauma. The setting failed us early, and it failed us consistently, and many of us did not recover the relationship with learning that we might otherwise have had.
Classrooms are sensory environments that filter Autistic children out. Fluorescent light. Loud rooms. Crowded corridors. Unpredictable schedules. Teachers who rotate between moods. Playgrounds that operate on social rules we cannot read. Uniforms that hurt. Lunches that run on a clock and in a place that overwhelm us. Every element of this is standard in most schools, and every element of it is a problem for an Autistic child.
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