[medicalfox]

Mom creates birthday Facebook page after son says he 'has no friends' | abc7chicago.com

You can wish him a happy birthday if you have a facebook

[manwithnofriends]

Neither do I.

Who cares anyway?!

[medicalfox]

It was meant to be positive

[RichardBrooks]

A friend of mine sent me a link just about an hour ago, and I was going to post something here but I see someone beat me to it.

[Hellion]

Well that is pretty cool....but if its so bad at school he has to sit in the office to eat lunch, perhaps the mother should maybe consider switching schools or something. I mean I am sure he's happy about the facebook page....but thats not going to make it easier for him at school.

I would be willing to say going to regular public school did a lot of damage to me, being one of those kids no one liked...and made fun of a lot. I just hate to think about this poor kid developing worse and worse mental health and have their self confidence destroyed from constant exposure to that kind of environment.

[medicalfox]

I got switch to 4 schools before and the kids still acted the same to me. Kids in that age group are cruel and they always pick on the kids that don't fit in. There's only so much the staff can do and they can't force kids into liking other kids. My younger sibling isn't even a aspie and he gets bullied at school. I wish they could do something for kids and I wish that younger kids were more understanding.

[phaset]

My last birthday party I only invited one friend and they didn't even show up.

[catsrhelm]

I know. I commented the following, "It is too bad those other parents are too busy or whatever to teach their children about autism or even the value of making friends with different folk." Sure makes you see what this world has come to.

[Hellion]

Originally Posted by medicalfox

I got switch to 4 schools before and the kids still acted the same to me. Kids in that age group are cruel and they always pick on the kids that don't fit in. There's only so much the staff can do and they can't force kids into liking other kids. My younger sibling isn't even a aspie and he gets bullied at school. I wish they could do something for kids and I wish that younger kids were more understanding.

I feel like there are solutions, perhaps schools need to be changed up a bit...kids should be taught and encouraged to accept others for who they are, and treat others with the same respect they might want to be treated with and that sort of thing bullying should be deeply discouraged and people who indulge in it should face consequences...but sadly often times the person getting bullied ends up facing the consequences. Or worse sometimes the teachers seem to encourage the ostracism of the 'weird' one.

Or there are alternative sorts of schools...that aren't like a traditional public school. Sometimes places like that might be better, I kind of wish I had been put in some sort of alternative school where I would have had help instead of bullying, ostracism and no teachers/staff to go to for help.

[rosska]

School was a horrible experience for me, and not a time in my life I would ever care to repeat. That actually makes me a little sad, because most people I know have this 'romanticised' view of school and say things like "god I wish I could go back to school again, instead of being a grown up".

I was bullied from day one of primary school (age 5) and the bullying didn't stop until I left at age 16. Even when I went to college I ended up leaving after one year because I just couldn't fit in and was always left standing outside in a corner somewhere on my own out of fear.

The worst part of it all, I think, was that there were several occasions where the other kids would harass me in classrooms and the teachers would even laugh at some of the things they were saying to me. At one point I stood up for myself and told the people to "**** off and leave me alone", this was when a teacher took notice and I was given detention...

I ended up really screwing up my exams in my last couple of years there because I just couldn't face going, so I would feign illness to get out of school and ended up missing most of my classes. That's not how it should have gone.

[Hellion]

I used to pretend to be sick to get out of going to school to....not because I wanted to lounge around but because I just couldn't take being at school around all the people who didn't like me and being in that negative environment. I even missed some events the band class did because I didn't want to deal with the other people in the percussion section telling me I suck and giving me crap about being worried about messing up.

I somehow managed to graduate...don't think anyone cared, honestly I don't see why I even went to the graduation ceremony.

[rosska]

I'm glad we don't have graduation ceremonies in this country, save for at Universities and some Colleges. That's a torture I was spared. I did pass some of my exams, but not all of them and not with as good grades as I should have done.