The semester has ended. Grades have been recorded. It’s time to take a deep breath and assess how things went. This assessment might seem odd to people who don’t follow The Autistic Me. Teaching tends to be the easiest part of my job. My challenges generally occur outside the classroom.…
Category: Education
Posts on teaching, studying, educational systems, and institutions.
Susan and I don’t want life to be too interesting. The bland normalcy with which we began 2025 was nice. So… things got interesting. Leigh chose to have back surgery to correct her scoliosis. Leigh had to have staples in her scalp after falling and hitting her head at school,…
Life is rarely perfect, but it can be blandly normal. I admit that 2024 wasn’t easy. It ended badly. At least it wasn’t quite like how eventful 2023 was, with an ICU visit I’d rather not repeat. For now, I am attempting to accept the bland normalcy of life in…
Autistics often find themselves judged in the workplace not by their knowledge and skills, but by how well they perform “normalcy” in an office. To appear other than how they are, the Autistics must mask, as in putting on their happy worker faces and mimicking the “neurotypical” people around them,…
Podcast 0118; Season 7, Episode 11; 10 September 2024 Scot Marken of EdRedefined.com, recorded on 4-Oct-2023 https://www.edredefined.com/ EdRedefined was created to make college and other postsecondary programs more inclusive, help students build their skills, and provide ongoing support so that students will thrive and be happy. OUR APPROACH We believe…
August 9, 2024, was my final day as an instructor at Texas A&M University. The university is considered one of the best in Texas, and I was honored to teach there, but I was unhappy and unhealthy. Those two probably go together, with some uncertainty as to which is the…
Podcast 0117; Season 7, Episode 10; 03 September 2024 Jason Dietrich, Neurodiverse STEM Educator; originally recorded on 15 September 2023 Jason Dietrich writes: I am interested in increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM as well as building a solid foundation for STEM literacy. Ours is a technology-based society, therefore, I…
Podcast 0115; Season 7, Episode 8; 10 July 2024 NOTE: Originally Recorded 18 August 2023 Jenny Sandler and HomeschoolUK.com Jenny Sandler is an experienced educator working with autistic children and adolescents both in and out of school. She holds an M.A. in literacy and an M.Ed. in autism in children.…
Taking on too much at work or in school is something I hear other autistics admit to doing. Add the ADHD many of us have and it’s a potential disaster in the making. We take on more than we can realistically manage, trying to prove our value while setting ourselves…
April brings “Autism {fill in the blank}” day and month. Is it “Autism Awareness,” “Autism Acceptance,” or something else? I don’t have the time or energy to care. Each year, I rant about the month. Most people are “aware” of autism, though I question if that awareness helps anyone. My…