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>>I think the most important thing to remember about having an autistic individual in your
classroom and being responsible for his curriculum is to remember that his or her brain is wired
differently.
What we perceive, and what we take for granted, is very difficult for those students.
Sometime their behaviors and sometimes their cell stimulatory behavior they have can be
very distracting and to yourself and to the students. I think one thing you always have
to remember is to not to take it personally. That can be hard because after you try so
hard with a student, they might start doing something really inappropriate and it is very
hard because you have these kids who can tell you all the muscles in your face and their
five years old, and yet, they don’t know how to act socially, and to not tell the same
thing to a five year old at lunch.
It can be very difficult to maintain that patience with them. You can’t ever take
it personally because they really can’t help it. And they are trying to fit in and
what they know is some totally inappropriate thing to talk about. You just have about take
it and say, it is not about you it is about the kids, it is about their inability to process
what you’re saying.