Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 1 day agoI had a learner on spectrum who physically attacked me for 2 hours because, after our classroom won the ‘Golden Trashcan’ Award for cleanest room, the Golden Trashcan was not real gold.
The only quote I remember from this was him screaming at me while gesturing at the trashcan, “That’s not a thing! That’s not even an animal!”
10/10, would teach again.
Ethanol@pawb.social 23 hours ago
I hope you’re alright after that physical attack! Hope someone educated the kid on their autism and their actions too. I think I slightly understand the train of thought with the “it’s not an animal” argument though. I’m guessing the kid assumed that the word gold was reserved for actual gold unless talking about animals like the golden hamster or goldfish where it just meant gold colored :P
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Also, there was no successful remediation of this behavior. I worked with him for 5 years and, while he did learn the academics, he never really adjusted well to our society.
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Yep. He was we would be getting the precious metal. This was made very clear by him.