Why do people with autism get extra time in exams

Naa you can't take the piss out of him. Does annoy me that I can't say anything about him being a **** tho

Okay. As I said before, it depends on the situation. Do you know anyone else who wanted to do 5?

Although I don't have autism or experience working with autistic people, the autistic boy's caretaker or teacher should help him improve his personality. Autism or not, they is always room for improvement. Do I call people I don't know a-holes in rl? No. Did I call him an a-hole? Yes. Would I dislike an autistic guy who makes me feel bad about my low scores in school? Yes. Its pretty normal reaction/feeling to a bragger. T

It has little to do with him being autistic and more with the way he cares himself when he succeeds. No offense, but I do not care if someone is a little different mentally. If I happen to find someone unlikable, I will not pretend I don't because they're a little different. If they are really viewed as equals then they are not protected from being disliked just like everyone else.

Many people with Autism will also have other learning disabilities, such as Dyslexia, which will make reading harder.



If only it was that simple...

It seems as though most of you don't have a clue and are just bitter. I'm sure you'd change your tune if you were in that situation. Autism does affect the way you communicate. It can take me several attempts to read a question in order to actually understand it.

I'm actually an aspie that convinced my college to let me do 5 . So I find this situation amusing as I too used to be disliked because I was condescending and arrogant.

Me too(except for the condescending and arrogant part). I know two people from my college who didn't seem to be autistic and were allowed to take 5 though. One chose the same subjects as me I think but dropped one a few weeks into AS. One took a very close combination(geology instead of further maths). They shouldn't allow some people to take 5 and some not based on whether or not they're autistic.

OP is just jealous. He shouldn't be, I have a physical disability, different, I know but I imagine autism is hard too. I get extra time in exams. I'd give that up ANY DAY, to be able to walk normally and to be able to concentrate properly on reading. My disability is mild compared to others and I CAN TELL YOU, even mild disabilities are terrible. And I'll tell you what else makes it WORSE, the lack of understanding among others like yourself. Be grateful for what you BOTH have got instead of complaining about extra time disabled people, who are ENTITLED to extra time get in exams.

I wasn't comparing autism to depression or personality identity disorder. My point was having a condition or brain rewiring or whether doesn't mean that person is protected from being disliked. Improve autism?

Telling an autistic kid to cool down on the bragging when he knows the people around him are doing badly is improving autism? Alrighty. His caretakers or teachers who help him cannot teach him bragging to other kids who are doing badly isn't nice thing to do is trying to fix him up? Alrighty.

Did you overlook my point that having autism does not make someone less likely to be disliked or did you chose to ignore it and somehow make this a mental illness thing?

I'm sorry if you got that impression.

a kid in my school, has aspergers or whatever it's called. He's more intelligent than anyone in the school, and retains information without doing hardly/much work and get's amazing grades. But the thing that gets me, is that he has an extra half an hour in every exam, despite him getting nearly 100 percent in everything and being predicted A*'s, he's excuse is that it takes his brain longer to function(which is bs he's quicker than everyone in class and is always on the last question when we leave). Then if he beats one of us in an exam, he gets really cocky and gloats about it. I feel this is pretty unfair.

Do you actually know anything about Autism? I get the impression you don't.

I have Asperger's, and it's crap that it takes you longer.

But that's you. It's a spectrum. Just because you're ok doing something, doesn't mean we all are.

Please don't try to educate me about my own condition. Most of the aspies I know/have known are very similar to me - maybe more intellient than I am. I've met people in other areas of the spectrum with varying degrees of intelligence/speed, but I was specifically referring to people with Asperger Syndrome - as I'm sure you saw.