How to Cope In a Special Ed if You Have Asperger's Syndrome

People with Asperger's Syndrome are often sent to special education class. Often, they are too smart for it. It can be a real downer. This guide will help you cope if you find yourself in this situation.

Steps

1. You are not stupid, regardless of those who surround you or the way people treat you. Many times, people don't know how to accept differences, and dismiss anomalies as mental disorders.
2. Inform people who patronize you in infantile ways that you are intelligent and able to communicate on a higher level. If conversation is too daunting a task, fewer words may be used. A simple, "Please don't do that" will suffice.
3. Complete your work with efficiency unobserved in the other students. If simple addition is too hard simply because it is too easy (Einstein's dilemma), do some research online of a subject that interests you and write a report. Try showing the results of your labor to the teacher to inform them that you are capable of higher-level thinking.
4. Keep your chin up! No matter how drearily boring and simple special ed is, you must stay determined. Someday you will be out of that class and able to exercise your mental ability any way you want.
5. Express yourself in whatever way you can. If this means quadratic equations, do quadratic equations. If it means drawing intricately detailed architecture, draw intricately detailed architecture.
6. Impress your teachers. Show that you are too smart for special ed.
7. Relieve your stress. Dealing with ridiculousness for days on end can be highly stressful; if you've had a bad day, do the following:
   
   • Get 2 large pillows.
   • Strap them together.
   • Attack them! Talk dirty to them, shout at them (not too loud, you might get in trouble) punch them, bite them, do whatever as long as you dont rip them open. Try to do this when nobody else is home, as it work against you and cause people to think that maybe special ed is a good place for you.
8. Most importantly: Study hard outside of school, do the childish work inside school, and do it well.

Tips

• Keep asking for more work in class. If you do 10 worksheets (or more) in one lesson, they will give you harder work.
• If they dont give you harder work, ask them. If they dont give it to you afterwards, talk to your parents and tell them to talk to the school. They have to give you harder work by law.

Warnings

• Don't be cheeky or rude (others' feelings can be hurt if you state things too harshly). This will only get you in trouble and make the teachers patronize you even more.
• If special ed is making you depressed or ill, see a psychiatrist.

Things You'll Need

• determination
• the will to learn
• patience
• ordinary school books/go on wiki
• the ability to say "I am sick of this!"

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