Having Autism At School

Summary

"Having Autism at School" delves into the unique experiences of a creator, Junskully, who candidly shares his journey as an autistic individual in the school system. The video highlights both the struggles and the unexpected perks of navigating education with autism. Junskully reflects on feeling different, yet special, and the challenges of making friends, participating in activities, and dealing with social anxieties. Despite the tough moments, Junskully expresses gratitude for the support received from teachers and the allowances made for autistic students, such as extra time on exams and less crowded test environments.

Highlights

• Junskully shares his personal revelation about being autistic, previously mentioned only in passing. 🤯
• He explains the joys and struggles of being autistic, particularly in a school setting. 🏫
• Despite challenges, Junskully appreciates the unique perspectives his autism gives him. 🌟
• He humorously recounts his favorite school meals and the chaos of lunchtime rushes. 🍽️
• Junskully candidly discusses the challenges of social interaction, sharing both humorous and painful anecdotes. 🤝
• The video tackles the common misconception that all autistic people are academically gifted, with Junskully sharing his realistic school struggles. 📚
• Junskully highlights the positive aspects of being autistic in school, like getting extra exam time. ⏰
• Support teachers are praised for their role in helping autistic students succeed in school. 🏆

Key Takeaways

• Autistic individuals often experience school uniquely, balancing between feeling out of place and embracing special privileges like skipping queues. 🎓
• Social interactions can be challenging for autistic students, yet many find solace in routines, like having the same favorite lunch every day. 🍽️
• Support systems, such as dedicated support teachers, play a crucial role in helping autistic students navigate their educational journey. 🙌
• The journey of an autistic student often includes moments of self-reflection and growth, despite external misunderstandings. 🔄
• Special accommodations, like separate exam rooms and extra time, can significantly impact the academic success of students with autism. 📝

Overview

Junskully takes viewers on a heartfelt journey through his school years, marked by the distinctive experiences of an autistic student. From the revelation of being autistic to the quirks of daily school life, he paints a vivid picture of both the highs and lows. School life wasn't always easy, with social interactions often feeling like uphill battles, and routines providing a comforting escape.

He humorously discusses his unwavering loyalty to the same school meals and the chaos of racing to the canteen, reflecting on how these quirks were central to his school experience. Socially, Junskully faced difficulties making friends and participating in group activities, often feeling like an outsider looking in. Yet, he navigated these challenges with a blend of humor and resilience.

Despite the struggles, Junskully highlights the importance of support systems in school, particularly praising the role of support teachers and the accommodations provided for autistic students. These elements, coupled with his unique perspective on life, enabled him to find moments of joy and personal growth amidst the challenges. Overall, the video offers a candid and insightful glimpse into life as an autistic student, filled with both struggles and triumphs.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 01:00: Opening and Personal Revelation The chapter titled 'Opening and Personal Revelation' focuses on the author's discussion of autism, a neurological and developmental disorder that affects social interactions, communication, learning, and behavior. The author reveals personal information, admitting to having autism, which had not been prominently disclosed in their videos before. They acknowledge having previously shared this fact in a less-viewed video about having no friends, making this revelation seem new and significant to most of their audience.
• 01:00 - 02:00: Sponsor Message - Aura In this chapter, the speaker reflects on their experience of being autistic. They share the uniqueness and the different perspective on the world that autism provides, asserting that it doesn't feel like a disorder. However, the speaker also recounts negative experiences due to autism, particularly at school, which weren't pleasant. They draw a parallel to the alarming realization of personal sensitive information being vulnerable to exploitation, highlighting concerns over privacy and security.
• 02:00 - 03:30: School Experience and Social Challenges The chapter titled "School Experience and Social Challenges" discusses the importance of protecting personal information from data breaches. It highlights a significant incident in August 2024, when hackers leaked 2.9 billion personal records containing full names, addresses, phone numbers, and social security numbers. The chapter emphasizes the role of services like Aura in preventing damage from such malicious activities and stresses the need for individuals to take precautions to safeguard their information.
• 03:30 - 05:00: Daily School Life and Preferences The chapter discusses the importance of protecting personal information online. The narrator highlights the increasing risk of identity theft in today's digital age and introduces a solution through a service named Aura. Aura provides comprehensive monitoring of personal data across various platforms, alerting users to potential threats. It also offers up to $5 million in identity theft insurance and includes a suite of online safety tools within one application.
• 05:00 - 06:30: Social Dilemmas and Masking The chapter discusses the importance of protecting personal information online, especially in the wake of recent data breaches.
• 06:30 - 08:30: Benefits of Being Autistic at School The chapter discusses the author's school experience, particularly focusing on their selective mutism despite having a YouTube channel where they frequently speak. At school, the author only spoke when addressed and preferred observing rather than participating in class discussions, largely due to anxiety about speaking in front of others. This highlights the contrast between their school behavior and their current comfort speaking publicly online.
• 08:30 - 09:30: Conclusion and Reflection The chapter "Conclusion and Reflection" delves into the personal struggles faced by the protagonist during their school years, particularly around social interactions and dating. The protagonist describes themselves as a typical quiet kid who struggled to make friends and had a non-existent dating life in high school. In addition to social struggles, they faced educational challenges, needing a support teacher due to difficulties in following instructions. This situation made their neurodivergent status known to classmates, who seemed to have an aversion to neurodivergent individuals, leading to social isolation. The reflection highlights the social and academic hurdles faced and emphasizes the protagonist's feelings of exclusion and misunderstanding from their peers.

Having Autism At School Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 autism a neurological and developmental disorder that affects how people interact with others communicate learn and behave yes that's autism cool that's what I have i know I never revealed this fact in the video since I'm always talking about topics that's got nothing to do with myself well that is a blatant lie because I did reveal that I was autistic in my having no friends video but not a lot of people watch that video or even remember watching that video so it seems like a fresh revelation even fresher than Dwayne the Rock Johnson's
• 00:30 - 01:00 shiny bold head but yes yes yes I am indeed autistic do I like being autistic yes because my brain works differently than most people i feel truly unique to be honest i don't see as a disorder autistic people see the world differently than most people i can also say no because of the mean experiences I had due to my autism especially at school being autistic at school is not a cute adventure to say the least and do you know what's also not cute realizing that your personal most sensitive information might be out there for malicious individuals to exploit that's
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• 01:30 - 02:00 personal information online before this should be a huge wakeup call as the risk of your information floating around online hasn't been as high as it is now this is why I love Aura as they make it very easy aura monitors your personal information across billions of data points like the dark web and public court records to detect and alert you to potential identity theft they give you up to $5 million in identity theft insurance should the worst case scenario happen and Aura has a bunch of other online safety features all in one app in which you can grab yourself an exclusive
• 02:00 - 02:30 deal through my link in the description or aura.com/junscoly your personal information hasn't been more vulnerable online than right now with all the data breaches happening recently so make sure to protect yourself by going to orura.com/jscoly where you can try Aura 14 days for free now back to the video to give you some context I only went to British public schools that's one primary school then an all boys high school from year 7 to year 8 and then a mixed school from year 9 to 11 back in the school days especially in primary
• 02:30 - 03:00 school I rarely spoke which is quite ironic considering that I have a whole YouTube channel where I literally get paid to speak or how the tables have turned but it was never like this i will only speak if I got spoken to and even if I say something I will only say a few words and that's it i hated when the teachers called my name to answer questions it's not like I don't know the answer it's just that I feel a bit too anxious to speak in front of the whole classroom i would just rather observe and be aware of my surroundings so the
• 03:00 - 03:30 fact that I struggled to make friends at school is the biggest understatement of the century and let's not even talk about my dating life in high school it was practically non-existent i was just a typical quiet kid i wouldn't bother to speak to anyone at school and it didn't help that I had a support teacher during all my classes because I couldn't follow simple instructions to save my life so everyone in my class knew I was neurode divergent and from my observations they seemed to have a phobia for neurode divergent individuals as they avoided me completely from my worlds it seemed that
• 03:30 - 04:00 nobody wanted to talk to me at all and that was perfect i didn't want to speak to people as well so it was a mutual respect i hated being around lots of people i also didn't like it when there was like 40 people in a classroom i didn't do particularly well in group assignments and I love school assemblies my anxiety would literally skyrocket in those set situations i just wanted to be in my own bubble i would go to empty classrooms just to pent up at break and lunchtime and play flash games on the
• 04:00 - 04:30 school computers when I had a chance speaking of break and lunch I feel like my autistic trait that always stuck with me throughout primary and high school was me eating the same foods over and over again i will have the classic jack of potato beans and cheese and have the custard and cake for dessert oh my days that was delicious if that specific meal was out of stock I would literally crash out that's why as soon as the bell rang during the fourth period you would dead see me sprint as fast as I can to the canteen to reserve that meal for myself
• 04:30 - 05:00 and my favorite subject at school was music because it allow me to play drums for an hour i am also a very sensitive man i don't like disappointing people if I disappointed someone it will feel like my world is crumbling down to the pits of hell that's why when students or teachers ask me for a favor I rarely ever say no even if it's not in my best interest i remember every single time after high school I will go to the chicken and chip shops to buy free wigs and chips after I bought them random kids in my school would always be begging me for one wing or one chip they
• 05:00 - 05:30 could have asked anyone who are getting the same thing at the time but they decided to ask me can I get one wing it's just one wing i'm hungry bro i'll bust you one wing tomorrow bro oh man i hate it when they keep asking man but me being me I of course gave them the wink like a fool so naturally they obviously took advantage of my Mr nice Guy syndrome and always got what they wanted out of me because I was too much of a kitty cat to stand up for myself if teachers were shouting at me
• 05:30 - 06:00 it would completely destroy my spirit it generally bothered me for weeks on end but no one knew because I mask how I was feeling speaking of masking I'm unfortunately really good at it as I didn't like it when people in school saw me as the wkin that no one liked and yes I did say I was fine being alone in my own bubble but it was painful getting ignored avoided or not included in my class the teacher would ask the students to pick a partner for a task however no one would pick me bro I sound like an entitled piece of crap i said I was fine being alone now I'm saying I want to be
• 06:00 - 06:30 in a circle that's probably one of my other autistic traits i can't make up my mind anyways you might ask why don't you befriend the other guys on the spectrum good question i just couldn't click with them as they were different different different plus I admired the popular kids they were loved by everyone they got all the girls they were good at sports they had everything and I practically had nothing so I wanted to be like them i studied and plagiarized their every move and behavior in an attempt to fit in and to no surprise it
• 06:30 - 07:00 didn't work broki we know you got special ed you're not fooling anyone get out of here man you see the pattern it's not like I ever got bullied in school it's just that people never took me seriously you're trying to join your school football team you're incapable of understanding the game how about you go back to playing your computer games where you belong looking back I just felt like an outsider at my school but my school career wasn't all that negative as a neurode divergent there was some positive with being autistic at school like having the ability to skip the queue at break at lunch oh man I love
• 07:00 - 07:30 that benefit in my high school autistic people had the exclusive right to skip the queue for lunch all you had to do was to show your card and you're granted permission to skip the line this was such a W benefit while skipping a queue I remember looking at the kids and they gave the most annoyed look almost like they wanted to fight me after school or something like broski chill out you're going to get your food bro and even though I was exempt from queuing for lunch I still sprinted to go to lunch is because if that jack of potato and
• 07:30 - 08:00 custard cake run out of stock my guy like I said it would have been the end of the world for me another quote unquote special kid benefit is taking your exams in a different room away from the assembly hall full of students coupled with having extra time on exams oh my days this benefit single-handedly saved me from failing my exams oh that's 100% truth i will always credit the extra time benefit for passing my exams if I didn't at least finish the whole papers I would have 100% failed broki I can't imagine taking exams in a room
• 08:00 - 08:30 full of students some are themselves some are effortlessly crushing it like a lullaby dance no effort whatsoever and some are even crying because they don't even know what the answers are to any of the questions observing all of that would raise my anxiety and destroy any confidence I ever had with that exam i wouldn't be focusing on writing my exams i would just be focusing on looking at the students doing their exams and comparing myself and my abilities to them while they're writing their exams it would be too much to handle that's why I'm so
• 08:30 - 09:00 grateful that I took my exams in a different room where it's just me and few other students oh it was just brilliant i was flowing by it even though I barely passed key word barely i did not live up to the stereotype that autistic people are so smart academically yes I had talent for playing instruments like drumming but I was never academically smart i just barely got by lastly another W benefit of being autistic at school is the support teachers oh my days God bless their souls if it wasn't for them I
• 09:00 - 09:30 wouldn't have coped in high school or primary school they helped me through thick and thin no didy i appreciate what they done now that's my personal experience with being autistic at school in a nutshell let me know in the comment section if you can relate and I go into detail on my experience with making friends in school so if you want to watch that video click on the screen right now thank you very much [Music]