I didn't really think your job was 'nonce'.
I am greatly in awe of your patience. When I was a teacher, they kept giving me the SEN classes, and I really am not equipped for it. I suspect my husband is a borderline autist, though, and he drives me absolutely insane.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 31 May 2011, 11:03, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

because he HAS to get up at 6:30 every sunday to go to car boot sales?

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 31 May 2011, 11:06, Reply)

hahaha
No, he really has trouble reading other people's non-verbal signals, has really weird thought processes, and freaks out if something goes off-plan.

And he's really good with mechanical things.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 31 May 2011, 11:07, Reply)

We're all somewhere on the ASD spectrum
Once you see the list of traits, you notice things in everybody
(Mrs Ballunatic counting calories, not votes., Tue 31 May 2011, 11:10, Reply)

Keeping a list of traits would probably be one.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 31 May 2011, 11:13, Reply)

I couldn't be a teacher
I'm with SEN because of the small groups or home-schooling etc. A whole classroom of children would be a nightmare compared to giving my undivided attention to a child one-on-one.
(Mrs Ballunatic counting calories, not votes., Tue 31 May 2011, 11:06, Reply)

I was in a comprehensive in a shit town where the kids had no expectations beyond the dole
trying to teach them french, when most of them could barely read and write in english. Classes of 30+ where almost half were statemented, and the rest just had no interest anyway.

I had to leave before my mind checked out forever.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 31 May 2011, 11:09, Reply)

That does sound horrendous
SEN and social care are two areas where careers are measured in months and years, not years and decades because people do burn out quickly. It's challenging.
(Mrs Ballunatic counting calories, not votes., Tue 31 May 2011, 11:11, Reply)