My Experience of How Cruel Kids Can Be in School

By Eric Sissom

When I was a child in school, I was different from the other kids.  The reason I was different is because I have autism.  Autism is a developmental disability that affects a person’s language and social interaction.  I was always bothered, picked on, and made fun of for being different or weird.  There were several incidents when I lost my cool, some where I should have acted differently, and others when I got blamed for something I didn't do.

When I was in the fifth grade, one day in one of my resource classes, another student and I were sitting at the big large table.  I put my pencil down on the table.  Right after I put the pencil down, the other student picked it up and threw it across the room.  I went and got my pencil and started hitting the other student.  At that time the teacher walked in and saw me hitting the other student.  The teacher started writing my name down for a demerit.  I started telling the teacher, "He took my pencil, he took my pencil."  The teacher questioned how the other student would have gotten my pencil.  I didn't know how to respond, but basically said that he just picked it up.  The teacher didn't believe me.

One day when I was in the sixth grade, the other kids in my class were playing a game on me to see how many annoying names they could designate for me.  One child was keeping a notebook and writing down the names as kids were making them up.  They started in the morning, and by lunch time, they had around 80 names written down.  When they got up to 100 names during lunch, I was so mad, I actually screamed very loudly like a girl.  That caught the principal's attention.  He saw another student walking by my lunch table at the time I screamed.  The principal jumped to the wrong conclusion and escorted me and the other student out of the lunch room.  When the principal asked me why I screamed, I told him they were calling me names, referring to the other kids at my lunch table.  At that time, the principal realized the other student had nothing to do with why I screamed and sent him back inside the lunchroom.  The principal had a talk with me about screaming like that, and I ate lunch in the hall that day.

Another day in the sixth grade, I was sitting at my desk and noticed my pencil needed sharpening.  I went to the electrical pencil sharpener and stood behind another student, named Greg, who was sharpening his pencil.  When he was taking his pencil out of the pencil sharpener, another student, named Daniel, pushed me into him, and he stuck himself with his pencil.  When the teacher came into the room, Greg tattled on me.  When the teacher questioned me in the hallway outside of class, I told her, "Daniel made me push him."  Right after I said that, I knew that didn't sound right.  The teacher questioned that with her raised up eyebrows, and I said, "No, I mean Daniel pushed me into him."  The teacher called Daniel out into the hall, and Daniel denied pushing me.  The other kids in class said that Eric ran to the pencil sharpener and pushed Greg.  I didn't run, but walked quickly, which was my normal pace of walking.  In the long run, I ended up getting blamed for something I didn't do.

From these experiences, I learned how cruel kids can be to other kids.

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