Personal Narrative: My Experience Of Being Autistic

A big challenge that I have faced since the day I was born is being Autistic, throughout my life this has affected me, it has affected the way people judge me, what classes I am put in, and of course has affected me mentally, but during around middle school I began to slowly transition out of being ‘blissfully autistic’ and truly began to realize the world around me, though this was followed by a spree of depression due to that.

From as far back as I can remember I have been in a ‘special class’ of which as I said before I only truly began to notice in middle school. It was in middle school when I first joined a normal class but I was unable to stay in that class due to my inability to adapt to it, this was my first non-special class from
what I remember and so I didn’t understand how things worked in the class, I was use to the constant pampering of the ‘special’ teachers and not use to a great lack of it from teachers and so I was send back to a more lower grade ‘special class’, this was better depressing at the time as I viewed this as a great failure, but it did teach me a valuable lesson in the importance of adapting.