BTW, if your kid is retarded, PLEASE !!!! For the love of GOD!!!
Do not make it official. If you do, he might be thrown to a retard class. Let him go through a normal education, he can do it.
@Jens_Rasmussen
Sure...
But my point is, that most doctors have no idea how to evaluate it.
I was outright told, that I will be happy, if I pass the retard school. Because even experts do see autism as an incurable brain rot that makes you retarded, instead of "oh, he has slightly different motivational framework".
@Jens_Rasmussen @RikaDerufu
They can get "advantages", but are you sure you want them on the primary school level?
In the primary school, I had to demand teachers to rate me as any normal student.
It was only in high school finals, when I went to get the paper, to get an easier job getting accepted to a university, but before that, all the better grading would do would be to give me false information about ways in which I'm bad compared to others.
Not to mention again.... a risk of a retard class. Not worth it.
@Jens_Rasmussen @RikaDerufu
So, I was the worst guy in grammar in the entire class... Big fucking deal :D
@Jens_Rasmussen @RikaDerufu
> If someone is too "special" to feel humiliation
Yeah, but here you're talking about a vegetable levels of special.
@Jens_Rasmussen @RikaDerufu
Nah, An inability to feel emotions is a fucking myth. (Or an exception of some insane level)
@Jens_Rasmussen @RikaDerufu
So, I will repeat.
That state is extremely more rare then you would believe. You might not see it like that, since you expect a different reaction, but the feelings are still there.
@Jens_Rasmussen @RikaDerufu
So, you do believe, that people actually did benefit from the special class?
@Jens_Rasmussen @LukeAlmighty @RikaDerufu when i was a kid, they had a program where if you were smart enough you would get extra attention with extra challenges. i had that for language arts, always books with higher reading levels and spelling with harder words.
@LukeAlmighty yeah if my kid ends up a little bit autistic i've always thought i'll try to treat him as normal as possible. after seeing how my aunt and uncle raised my autistic cousin, i think part of the reason why he ended up the way he did was because they basically just enabled his autism and used it as an excuse at every turn.
obviously there are some learning differences and such, but i think it is still something that can be overcome with enough attention paid.
@beardalaxy
How bad is it?
Depends on how retarded he is.