Understanding Asperger Syndrome: A College Professor’s Guide
Monday, 8. March 2010
Part 1 of the first DVD in the series “Asperger Syndrome and Adulthood,” this video is intended for use by college students with Asperger Syndrome to educate their professors, teaching assistants, etc. on what it means to be a college student on the spectrum and how they might best be able to help them succeed. OAR produced the DVD in cooperation with the Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Project (GRASP) and Pace University in New York City thanks to a generous grant from the Schwallie Family Foundation.
hapselol Says:
This is a very good video BUT the part 1:55 – 2:06 is not for EVERYONE who got asperger, i have asperger but i understand it just as well as “normal people”
Roguemember Says:
@littlebigbrain
Easy for you to say, you weren’t there.
littlebigbrain Says:
Open your mind might help.
Roguemember Says:
I had a guy in one of my college classes who had AS. He would take up the entire class time debating with the professor and he annoyed everybody. Also, when it was his birthday, his parents were in class with him. He was introducing everybody in the class to his parents and addressing us as “his friends”. After that episode, I dropped the course and received a Zero. He scared the crap out of me.
toyy7675 Says:
Every street in this city is the same to me, every one got a place to be but there’s no room for me.
Its so hard to find some one who cares about you, but it is so easy to find some who looks down upon you.
There is people like me that no one sees so no one cares.
Three Days Grace – Someone Who Cares
God dam it takes my words right out of my mouth!
My life with aspergers is found in so many great songs.
autisticlicense Says:
This would’ve been helpful when I was at uni. Social work degree = hazy structure argh!
jhauenstein1975 Says:
The lack of self awareness is the main problem for aspies. I don’t even know what I want.
RightfullyReticent Says:
Ahh, okay. Ha, ha, probably. XD
Cakerolled Says:
You were probably just ’spergin.
RightfullyReticent Says:
Thank you for explaining that to me.
But now with my other question – Was I simply ignorant to what that meant out of never being taught, or is that an Aspergic aspect (in the theory that it’s something that one’s mind should just understand without teaching)?
Cakerolled Says:
Throw a wrench into the engine = to fuck something up. It’s a bad thing. Of course mabye the engine itself is the bad thing and throwing a wrench in it is a good thing. Depends upon the engine. Or his personal beliefs as to whether what he described as the engine was good or bad, most likely he
NamekianPikkoro7 Says:
A lot of teachers are.
RightfullyReticent Says:
I recently had a conversation with someone who kept continuously telling me that I’m wrong and that if I keep thinking the way I do, I will be deceived. (That’s a whole other subject in general.) But there was a statement that he made … “threw a wrench into the engine”. I don’t understand what that means. It could have had a good meaning or a bad one, but the fact that I don’t understand it made me angry. Eupheisms do confuse me, although I am GREAT with sarcasm. Is that an Aspergic aspect?
dublindee Says:
Rubbish, Academia has always been flooded with eccentrics. It’s a safe and structured and contained world; thus the perfect world for an Aspie with a focused interest.
fomastephanovitch Says:
I don’t mean you. The expression just means that it takes one to know one (the pot calls the kettle black when the pot is also black). I was referring to the notion of a humanities professor laughing at someone else for being weird.
Emilydogcat Says:
?How am I a pot calling the Kettle Black (I’ve heard that saying)—I don’t laugh at people who are different but I will speak up when someone is cruel.
fomastephanovitch Says:
Academia is turning into an asylum for the eccentrics.
People don’t take the humanities seriously anymore so we might as well put them all there so they think that they’re important.
fomastephanovitch Says:
Pot kettle black.
niffer58 Says:
This is currently elementry and middle school but I would really like to get them in a location where they can get help to be independant as soon as possible. Please please if you know of anything please text me back and i can give a email address and such for help. I am deparately looking for some help for them. thanks
niffer58 Says:
I am wondering if any of you all know where i could get help for my children. i have two children dianosed imporperly. we live in New Mexico but am trying deparately to sell the house we are in. i am homeschooling all my children due to abuse and safety issues with the schools atleast until we can move. I am working on moving to washington and ask if there may be some support that can be made to move my family to a place that my better assist them.. it would be greatly appreciated in anything.
ClamCrunchy Says:
A lot of professors are pretty weird and probably on the autism spectrum themselves.
Emilydogcat Says:
Not nice, not good; smalllllllll.
Emilydogcat Says:
Some professors just judge you and laugh at you and think you are a weirdo and it hurts.
Emilydogcat Says:
Atleast these professors seem to care about people who different, not like some other professors I know.
DragonGemini88 Says:
You sound very much like my boyfriend. He doesnt feel intiminated in most social situations, almost to his detriment. He often underreacts to people, and people are wierded out. He too understands sarcasm, but it is often not fully interpreted. What I really see is his lack of a certain self awareness. And he too is easily distracted, making his awareness even more difficult to recognize. Interesting food for thought