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Originally Posted by Callista
Oh, I tried before--dropped out after ending up in the mental hospital. I'm now heavily supported by my current school's disability services office, who are used to helping people with every kind of disability imaginable, from the commonplace like deafness or dyslexia to the complex like someone with CP, hearing loss, and vision impairment... or me, with my autism. There are another couple dozen autistic students at my school, too. It's getting better and better for autistics in the universities; I know more than a few autistic college graduates. It's not generally school that's really tough for us; it's the social pressure and workplace politics we face afterward. I can only hope that by the time I graduate, I'll have learned enough to advocate for myself and fit myself into some specialized niche in the engineering field.
USA Today covered it-- Autistic students get help navigating college |
thank you for that article! it was so informative and helpful.
My brother and niece are too low on the autisim scale to go to college.
but.....
I have more hope for my son now-- as he, we believe, is on the scale somewhere with aspergers. we are going to talk to a college counselor next week as he flunked out last year(and like you ended up in a mental hospital-- sorry you experienced similar
) he was told to re-apply. he's just like the people in the article-- I'm so hopeful now! I sure hope there's a school around us that has such a program.
thanks again for sharing this and I wish you so so much luck with your schooling!
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