I watched this traumatic video that made me cry about a boy who was mocked for having tuorrrete syndrome, a disorder that causes a person to make repeated twitches, movements, or sounds that they have little or no control over. He had to change school several times because the teachers thought he was trying to be funny and deliberately interrupting class while his fellow students laughed at him.
The poor boy moved from school to school until he got a school where the principal understood his challenges, empathised with him, educated the whole school and taught them the importance of acceptance.
I have learnt from my experience with parenting a child with autism how people are quick to judge a behaviour they don’t understand and label them wrongly.
I admit the movie must be old but some of the realities still run true in our education system and society.. Children with disability being suspended for behaviours they cannot help. I remember my son was expelled at age 4 from an autism spectrum class for having behaviour challenges which is not unusual for children with autism , a situation that was not even his fault.Afterall he did not chose to be autistic.
What schools need is more funding for ASD classes and special needs education with more trainings for teachers..
What parents need is to teach their children acceptance of people who present as different from them.
What the world needs is to show more kindness and awareness that we are wired differently
We are all uniquely formed and special in our own ways.
Deeply we all have elements of autism in us so we are not that different after all.