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I didn't realize I was in the focus class. This standup bit was recorded at the Elbow Room in West Hartford, Connecticut. - Komedie
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Dude I was planted from day 1…. Literally in first grade I was pulled into special ED. The first lesson was “ sit up… the other 3 stood and I said WTF
This just screams adhd lol
I'm listening to a book on audible called adhd a hunter in a farmers world.
Its really fascinating and interesting and it makes a lot of sense to me as someone who just discovered I have adhd myself.
I am actually have special neat so I have two schools that I go to. I go to one and then I go to the next one so like between each other so I have two teachers that sit with me science class and social studies class and I have very special help because I don’t really have a math class like other kids. Do I have a class that isn’t math class it’s other stuff it’s sad but yeah
@@johnmarshall7357 Yoo 😂😂
Jesus loves you!
I took the “connections” class. Apparently they took notice that I had no friends and put me in a class with other kids who had no friends 💀
Brutal. Been there.
Did it work
@@sadskins5447 it does not lol, put a bunch of antisocial kids in a room and you just have a bunch of antisocial kids staring at each other lol
@@sadskins5447 no, I didn’t make anymore friends in that class. Im just really particular about who I’m friends with honestly. I had 1 friend but shared no classes/lunch with him.
@@sadskins5447 no, what you do with an antisocial/introverted kid is pair them with an outgoing/extroverted kid. The only reason I had friends in highschool was because I got claimed by an extrovert.
Your 20s really are for figuring out just what the heck was *actually* going on in your childhood.
For real tho 😅
Fr. At 20 I started finally realizing why I had absolutely 0 friends throughout my whole childhood and now I'm trying to make some for the first time in my life
Yup. Learned at age 20 that my egg donor was abusive. For some reason it didn't really click until I was 21 and living in an apartment with roommates and they thought it was really weird that I'd leave the kitchen as soon as anyone entered it. And I was shocked when they actually used their words to ask for what they needed instead of expecting me to read their mind and be impatient because I was in their way.
I also learned recently that I'm trans, which explains a whole lot of things that I'd never thought much about. Apparently the motivation behind being a tomboy really matters. Cis girls are tomboys because they're kids who want to play in the mud even though our culture considers it masculine. I was a fussy "girl" who loathed being wet and dirty but pretended to like it because I wanted to be a boy. I made myself miserable because being boyish was more important to me than being comfortable.
Absolutely - and when you are on the spectrum that can kick off as late as your 40s and 50s.
My early 50s was when I figured out just how many people were hitting on me when I was young.
Had NO idea.
@@Alkalez0 That sucks man but there are resources and things you can even do on your own.
You have the world at your fingertips with the internet but be careful of course. You’re young so you have plenty of time to build the life you want. Everything is going to be okay ❤
“Well were the focus class lessons good?”
“I don’t know I wasn’t paying attention”
How you have 1.2k likes but no comments
Me 🤣
No literally
In our elementary school, the need-extra-help class was called "the Gap".
A friend of mine was sent to Speech Therapy because he had a New York accent. I told him "stop talking like you're in the mafia and you'll get a longer lunchtime."
It’s upsetting how your school tried to “fix” an accent.
he probably got the accent from watching too many American movies
@@potapotapotapotapotapota there's a probability he was just from new york
My middle school sent me to speech therapy because they thought I had a speech impediment - I had actually picked up my dads southern accent (living in New Jersey)
@@Chiakuuhow long ago was this? As an ST I hope the schools SLPs have progressed since then 😳
When I moved to a new school, I spent half my 2nd grade getting pulled out for an hour to be in a smaller group where they made sure I was doing ok. Which sounded nice but they kept talking to me in Spanish, which I spoke. But after about 6 months I finally realized they were doing this because they didn't think I spoke English & were making sure I was still following along in class. I spoke fluent English the entire time lmao
Idk if that's lucky or not. But sounds like your school had nice authority people who cared about the kids who might have a comprehension problem due to language
not exactly the same but when i was in high school and started at a new school my junior year, i was put into an ESOL class bc i didn’t talk and the teachers assumed i didn’t speak english 💀 whole time it’s my first language
My nephew was adopted from Guatemala. After a year in the states he spoke fluent English and remedial Spanish bc English was the only language spoken at home. The school kept putting him in ESOL classes and refusing to test him for anything else until Highschool. Eventually they realized that he had low IQ and needed to be in special classes and get an IEP but it took my sister years to convince them that just because his skin was brown, did not mean he didn’t speak English fluently. 🤦🏽♀️ He still needs a lot of help with daily tasks but he’s thriving as an adult with special needs.
Oooh, that one is 'cause they were thinking you were a foreigner.
My school kept doing that for years until someone finally realized they were putting all this Hispanic kids in the same class everyday and then that administration was quickly changed when that was made public
Hold up, a comedian uploading their own bits? This isn't stolen 3 times and reupload?
I'm gonna go watch this set
Hell yeah, thank you dude.
Oh shit i just assumed it was re-uploaded.
@@thejoebegsI second that. Fixing to find the special man.
This is unacceptable. I’ll be waiting for the stolen content.
This isn't his own bit, he stole it
As a special Ed teacher, it may seem weird to learn years later that you were in a special needs class but I think that’s a good thing. The stigma of needing to be pulled out because you are struggling due to a disability can be very harsh, kids can be cruel. We are careful to consider students feelings about being set apart from their peers as well as their self esteem. I don’t want my students to feel less than because of their disability, I want to normalize the process of receiving the help they need.
Yeah but I don't think he knew he had a disability lol. Since he was genuinely surprised to learn this
@@jayleejames864 I think that's the point. To try and work through the disability without making the student feel like they have a disability.
Honestly I think it depends on the kid. Personally for me I hate the fact my teachers try to hide that Im in a special class/ have a special class to go to. I don't need you to hide it, I've known that in fucked in the head since I was 8. All in saying is depends on the kid. Personally for me I would like to know what my special class is for exactly and not be sugar-coated, but for someone else that might not know I can see why you wouldn't tell them
Thanks, never got this many likes for real, and congrats to the owner of this comment section!
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@@litttlewolf4599 Unfortunately, we can’t determine each child’s preference ahead of time and tell them all different things. My students know that in my class, we work on their reading and writing goals at a level they can understand. I don’t label my class at all and I don’t say the words special education under any circumstances. My goal is to normalize students getting the help they need, not separate them or make them an “other” to their peers.
I was put into the “Hard workers class” called that because we had to work very hard to get average scores 💀👍
That's just messed up LMAO
oof 😂
Didn't take language but "can" speak Chinese
My dude is a genius!
Appreciate that bro 🤝
Yeah but he can focus the shit outta that mandarin..
Why does speaking Chinese make him a genius? Chinese can't be too hard, because Chinese babies learn it, and they're babies.
Failed Spanish twice in high-school, now I'm a professional translator for Farsi and Russian. 💪🧠
@@barth9580 can't wait for to find out it's easier to learn languages when you are younger
I got put in a “gifted program” cause I was doing 9th grade math in 3rd grade. They stuck me in the Special Ed class and made me do research on random topics that they pulled out of a hat, treating me like I was just another one of the special needs kids the whole time. Even at that age it pissed me off to no end, being treated like I couldn’t think for myself. I stopped trying and ended up getting put back in the normal classes when my grades dropped. That was the when I learned “Don’t put in any more effort than is absolutely necessary. The reward is never worth it.“
Dude that sucks. Some school have great programs, and others completely screw the kids. In Catholic school, they would take the distracted kids out of recess. Made absolutely no sense.
I was in an experimental program in highschool. Brocca project. We were just jammed full of mathematics and physics and monitored like monkeys.
In the 9th grade I was always late for 1st period English class. And they sent me to this class where most the students read at a 4th-5th grade reading level and everytime I took the test I was at 12+ college level. It's my own fault for sleeping in but they could have just made my 1st period Study Hall or worked with me a little better. They also sent the school resource officer to my house to threaten me for being late to school and he hit on my mom. School sucked 😂
This is exactly what happened to me in 2nd and 3rd grade. Finishing fast, making 100’s so they moved me but then i didnt like leaving my friends every day and then stopped doing it in 3rd grade.
Funny enough, i started struggling in highschool but i also wasnt the most involved or attentive student.
I also learned that minimum effort (in school) = same result as everyone else at that time
My C’s still got me a diploma
As a middle school teacher, I would like to petition for this "focus class" to be a required class for the general student population.
In 2nd grade my physically abusive teacher recommended special Ed. She thought I had ADD. In 3rd grade I was reading at a 12th grade level. The teacher can truly make the student in the early years of education. Thank you so much Mrs. Debra Ferguson from Tolman Elementary.
Physically abusive or physical education?
Ok but reading levels are such bullshit I was "reading at a 9th grade level" in second grade but the classroom libraries now have the same books as then
Im autistic and had a similar experience, I wasn't diagnosed until my 20s but i had to stay in at lunchtime to do lessons on how to be less weird and make friends, I didn't know it wasn't normal for so long! It's not like I could ask my school friends lol
I wish I went to a school last like yours. I went by without friends for so long because I didn't know how to even talk to people. Wish someone had taught me how to. Turns out I was autistic.
Ah well...I never went to any of these classes, though I still knew I was weird. The reason why I do is because some people told me that I am, they didn't sugarcoat or anything. I wasn't always the loner type introverted person I am now. Back then, I was actually an extrovert, though I didn't realize I was the weird type. So I wasn't completely alone since I do know some people whom I consider friends, and all of them were actually real nice people I can talk to sometimes. I just...after I was told I was weird, not just by a classmate but also by my teacher in 7th grade...I lost my confidence and self-esteem and decided to "control" myself...but that still ended with me being a sleepy introverted loner. I thought I was normal until I knew I wasn't, and that changed me for life and made me who I am. I slowly realized that I was, in fact, being weird and just accepted it...but it still humiliates me whenever I think about me, and it hurts.
@@zyrahanne2103 I was a weirdo throughout middle school, and was fortunate enough to make a friend who taught me to embrace it. I learned that you should live for yourself, and be the version of you that makes you happy. The people who like you for yourself are the ones worth keeping around, after all. No need to make yourself "normal." I believe in you, person on the internet!
OH MY GOD MY TEACHERS DID THIS TOO
@@zyrahanne2103 did they say you were weird, or did they say you DID something weird. We can all make weird actions. I'd like to be corrected when i do so I can not repeat them. Don't take ti personally, etc.
They called it “enrichment” at my school. I was one of six kids there. It was the only time I could get my work done bc I had an adult to just sit next to me so I could focus 💀 my mom had to do the same thing at home or else I couldn’t do my homework. I didn’t need help. I knew how to do it. I just needed somebody to sit by me while I did it quietly by myself.
What state was this in? I grew up in Georgia and took gifted classes (classes for advanced students). Before it was called gifted, it was called enrichment.
@@BladexZero12 it was in Michigan and the enrichment class i was in was... definitely not for advanced students. i have the adhd and autism real bad and it made it impossible for me to get anything done in most classrooms so they stuck me in a quiet room to do my work lmao. its funny how where i grew up 'enrichment' was basically the nice term for special ed and for you it was a spicy term for advanced/gifted classes.
In case you didn't know already that's called body doubling :) I regularly use it to this day for everything from a chore to grocery shopping to writing an email lol, works wonders!
@@chloe5275 yeah i only learned the term as an adult and its so helpful, i wish somebody had explained it as a kid bc i might have actually done okay in school lol. but thank you! i always like to share the secret of body doubling lol
lmao same
THE FOCUS CLASS...as someone who has ADHD and was in special Ed that didn't help...that is adorable and wholesome 😭🤧
We were the kids always randomly outside playing basketball while the other students looked out the windows wondering how come they get to play 🤣
It’s cause we are retarded
When I was in Catholic school, they would keep the ADD kids in for recess. I'm jealous.
Damn we only got free time outside was in 4th and 5th grade Sped classes
@@thejoebegs seems counterproductive
@@purplekissycatholic schools - pointless suffering
Name a more iconic duo lol
I got put in special Ed for math when I transferred schools because they couldn’t understand the concept of different schools having different curriculums. Best week of my life, they gave me candy for doing multiplication tables.
i was one of those kids genuinely in the special ed math class 😅
I was in a higher math and dropped to regular math and felt like I was in special ed math. The teacher taught every concept so slow with the full equation given to you in high-school. I was like failing advanced geometry and then went into regular geometry. I went from solving formulas to figure out the distance of 1 side of a triangle to putting the circle block into a circle public schools are fucked.
Holy cow, what a messed up school system.
@@eurosonly It is in the middle of a town not a city. I don't know if cities have better systems in place but I hope they do.
@@esheep8697was in regular maths, but I got into a fight with the teacher over mistake she made. And I got put Into higher level maths. Got 100% in both of them. I thought I'd going into even higher maths but that teacher was scary. Also didn't speak the language that well so I was worried I would fail.
I was in the "Special reading" class. Would purposefully fail tests so I could stay, play games, and help the other kids😂
My dad wouldn't let them put me in special education classes but looking back as an adult, I would've gone so much further if I'd been in something called a "focus class." Now I'm almost 30, still living with my mom, chronically unemployed, and just STRUGGLING to exist. If someone says your kid might do better in special ed, FREAKING LISTEN TO THEM.
I was in “speech therapy” bc of my stutter but looking back at it… there wasn’t ever a lesson about speaking 😭 😂
same lmaooo
@@m0thbl00d that's actually pretyy normal! A lot of times it helps to train kids in nót focusing on speaking. It lessens stress and reduces the stuttering. Often parents and teachers are trained to give stuttering kids more time, so they feel less pressured. So even if the kids themselves don't have speaking lessons, their enviroinment gets coached how to make it less stressfull for the kid.
I got put into speech therapy in Highschool too, never needed it and to this day I don't understand why my mom (a special needs teacher) decided it was best for me
Never had a stutter, never had any issues talking
they found the quickest way to train a kid to stutter is by telling them they're stuttering. This was in the 40s, crazy science days. So nowadays they probably focus on distracting you from the stutter and making sure noone comments on it so that you don't reinforce the behaviour.
same. got taken to a separate classroom for an hour every week and we only ever just learned the same basic english stuff like what a verb is
I knew I was in special Ed when I found out not every student has meetings every three months to discuss if they’re gonna be able to “succeed” out of high school or not
That's not special Ed.
I'm fairly certain that those meetings were held before highschool with your parents/guardians every once and a while to sew if you're able to continue and to just check in to see how you're doing in classes.
Well in my country have what we call "quarterly discussion" for all students no matter their grades. My quarterly discussions probably took more time compared to other kids achieving better results.
@@HaveAGoodDayFk.U It is. You have to have progress meetings to evaluate if accommodations are helping, if they need more accommodations, or if they no longer need accommodations.
Just as a curious person, how long has it been? How do you perceive this theme in your life, nowadays?
" And I was like umm... four" 🤣🤣 I love these keep 'um coming
It’s great that your teachers and parents and students didn’t make you feel othered to the point you didn’t even realize. ❤
Bro me too, found out when I was 15 that those daily trips to the guidance counselor's office for group therapy weren't like a normal thing that other students had to do.
wtf i just realized why i went to the guidance counselor every day lmao
I didn't realize until I was almost an adult that I had a speech therapist in elementary school. I just remembered it as this nice lady who came to play go fish and other games with me.
Yo same. There was an older kid in my class who changed his volume randomly from whisper to screaming.
Thats so interesting! I work in elementary special ed and when we take our kids to the SLP, they (and we) call it "going to speech", so they definitely know what it is. Didn't realize there'd be such a different experience!
@@nadeen1111 When I found out, I discovered that the lady still worked at my old elementary school, but at the time I had no idea bc she visited our house for the sessions
Is there anybody else who does something similar? I remember that throughout my later elementary years like 3rd grade I would see this lady every week and we’d just sit in the library and talk and stuff. I don’t think it was for speech because I got my speech therapy in Middle School and I hardly had a speech impediment to begin with. Only reason I could imagine going to see her is due to the severe depression I developed as a kid from my abusive grandparents. She wasn’t a counselor either because no way is a school counselor going to have enough time to just chat with a single student for a whole hour uninterrupted, so I just wonder what that whole deal was.
i took the “emotions” class, basically they forced me and a bunch of other kids to learn how to speak publicly and express emotions better. I cried like 20 times during that class and everytime the teachers would clap for me and use me as an example for the other kids 💀
Yo, that's fucked up.
@@julianmitchell3035 my thoughts too!
My special needs class was literally called “learning support” 💀 they weren’t subtle at all
😂
I was in the buddies program. At first I thought I was special. Then one of the 8th graders mentioned that it was a mentoring program for socially awkward sixth graders.
I was in the buddies program! But I was the 8th grader. I loved hanging out with younger kids and helping them feel more included. I also got to do it instead of PE which was the best trade ever!
Yeah, I pretty much had the same thing happen. Our group would meet every Thursday afternoon in a spare classroom and I remember they had flash cards for stuff like “Happiness”, “Depression”, etc. and they’d ask us what that stuff meant in year 6. Looking back, everyone in that group including myself were severely lacking social skills
I was in this too! I was 8 and had freshly moved across the country with my parents, couple months later they were getting a divorce 🙃
My small private school made all us high schoolers and middle schoolers be paired up elementary kids. Principal said it would be beneficial to the one ones to have older people mentoring them. That’s great and all but I’m currently in student government. Our student government president didn’t tell us anything until a week before we were paired up.😅
Still special to have opportunity for support/resources!
The fact it took ya til the age of 26 to figure out says it all!! It shows ya were exactly where you needed to be!!!
🔥 burn
Lmao love it
@@thejoebegs lol awesome thanks man as I was only trying to be funny I wasn't trying to be mean or anything so I'm glad ya took it as a joke. ✌️🤙
@@thejoebegs who were u talking about in the clip. The woman I mean. Also where can we watch the full set?
Only reason I'm not liking this comment t is cuz it's 420😐
I figured out that I was in a "group" for "tutoring" but it was really a special needs group in elementary. Didn't realize it until high school when my friend was still going to this "group".
We should all be in a group! We all need a little help navigating life 🙏🏽
For me it was counseling. I didn't think anything of it at the time that I was basically in group therapy once a week in elementary school
Fuck I was in this shit too but I never questioned it? I don't even know what it was- whether it was counseling or like "special needs"
Yeah, I had that realization too. It was for my ADHD. I remember being about 6 years old, and missing the first two hours of class every Thursday (with the teacher's approval), because my mom would take me to this nice lady who would give me a little bag of popcorn and take notes while I played with a bunch of random toys, occasionally asking questions. It was a pretty sweet set up if you ask me, and it made the school day shorter.
I thought that was the extent of it, and then I remembered being assigned frequent special classes with five other kinds and a lady called an "OT" (occupational therapist). I still sometimes have those "hey, wait a minute, there was a lot of shit going on that I didn't know about!"
Honestly though, those classes give me a comfortable place to peace out for a little bit with kids who were at the same frequency, and I think they really helped.
In my elementary school they had a room called the "special room" where all the kids with disabilities of all sorts gathered. As a kid it was confusing and scary because no one knew what happened to the kids there and most people who went didn't come back to normal class. I remember passing the classroom going to lunch and seeing all the sad kids with varying degrees of frustration. Used to hear kids screaming in anger echoing through the hall from there.
I never understood why the kids there were so strange, but when I entered middle school I went to a private school to get better one on one help. Once there I met all sorts of amazing people struggling with disabilities trying their best to meet the demands of school life in a slightly less demanding environment. Made me realize just how messed up that elementary school classroom really was.
I remember when I moved cities in elementary school , I started school and they put me in ELD literally just bc of my name 😂 I was born in the US. My family mostly speak English at home. It took them three days to realize I spoke perfect English and they took me out. The funniest part is that my dad went to a parents ELD meeting the first day, they voted him the president since he was the only one who spoke perfect English, and even though I left he stayed president for the whole year, and he had to go to meetings to represent them 😂😂
Your dad is a great person for taking on that extra work to represent kids that weren’t his :)
I was in ELD before they realized I spoke perfect english
@@rhuet40 I have a question do they not just ask your parents what languages you speak before choosing your classes? I feel like this problem could be solved by just asking the family, but if only the kid knows the language but not the parents then I suppose it's more complicated
:)
@@unluckystaravia2352 They could simply ask the child. It should take about 5 minutes of conversation to figure out whether a child speaks English or not.
when you said, "which class did you take instead?" in my head I immediately went "guided study" LOL
Our teacher told us the last day of 6 years in primary school, that our class was for special needs kids. I remember us all being so confused like "wtf we have literally a better average number than the other class"😂
I said "4" right before he did 😂😂😂
Same ol same ol.
Who knew I was going to be diagnosed autistic at age 42 very.
NO... it didn't occur to me even though I had to take classes with only 3 other people 😂😂😂
They did not sugar coat it with me. There was this place in my school called "The Comet". My first time entering that room there was this guy standing atop a table, holding another table and screaming like a baboon. Also the text on the whiteboard referenced the teacher being gay.
- Welcome to the comet. This is so that you can focus more on your math problems.
lmao
Well I don't know about you but queerness and listening to screaming children are vital to my focus.
@@Dragonindigo245 Well he wasnt really queer. The angry kid had just written "Mr Karlsson is a Faggot" over the whole whiteboard
@@Camme69 Yes I figured in a school setting it wasn't exactly the nicest shit ever nor was it based on fact haha. I just thought the joke would flow better with slightly off phrasing, my bad.
In elementary school I was put in a class/group called the ‘banana splits’ it was for a group of kids whose parents got divorced 💀
And then in middle school I was put in a class called ‘speedy readers’ it was for reading comprehension 💀
Ok I'm sorry as a kid with divorced parents the name banana splits is hilarious 🤣
There was a banana splits group at my school too is this a universal thing
@@clareswanson6167 It isn't here for me in Ohio haha. I woulda been in it if there was.
@@clareswanson6167why would there be special group of kids with divorced parents?
@@tatiana4050 something about trauma bonding with other kids going through the same thing as you
As someone who has taken the focus class, this is absolutely true. 😂
Always hated it too because they’d make sure all of the other students knew that’s where you were going, they’d just drag you out in the middle of a lesson.. ugh…
That’s absolutely fine 😊 my kiddo was in special groups (for autism and adhd) in primary school until a his 6th grade. I’ve been fighting for him to go in a regular group for years before that... what a ride that was. He’s in (regular) grade 8 (which is high school here) now and is freaking THRIVING!! I couldn’t be more proud of him ❤
always glad to see some wholesome proud-mother-posting.
@@davoman9118 Yeah, it's sweet :)
In my primary school we had integrated program. We had mixed bag, like slower kids, kids with learning disabilities and even like super smart kids. We just had one extra teacher for support.
Wow so great!! I hope I get there someday too. Currently fighting for my son to get out of a special needs class that is holding him back... he's doing kindergarten curriculum....in the 4th grade...
My son was told he needed to be in special classes because he was constantly making clicking noises and moving around in his seat. He's high functioning autistic. But his IQ is above average and he makes straight A's so I didn't see why he needed to miss out on regular class just because he was stimming. We switched to a better school district and he hasn't had a problem here aside from his principal getting upset with him for forgetting to tuck in his shirt in the back and demanding that he look him in the eyes when he was talking to him. I had a little talk with him about it and he hasn't said anything to him again. But the other school was horrible. They tried to bully me into switching him to their special Ed class. Even tried threatening me with court and tried to say they were going to suggest he live with his dad because they thought he would be easier to persuade but his dad was in special ed himself and wouldn't have put him in there either. My only regret is that I didn't move out of that school district sooner
I remember taking a small class in 3rd grade where me and a few other kids were pulled into another room and were reading fairly easy books and articles. Then we would talk a little bit about what we read. I remember always feeling bad because I was a slower reader than the other kids so I would just glance it over and look up like “I’m done aren’t I cool” 😎
Just realized it was probably a “special” class…
NOOOOO DUDE SAME. Although I remember it was just to strengthen reading from what I remember 😅 I hated reading and still a slow-ish reader today.
same i had no clue it wasn't normal lol
Where you were SUPPOSED to get more practice reading but you faked it 🤦♀️
Same here
I did speech therapy in Kindergarten then remedial reading and math in at least 1st grade maybe part of 2nd and I didn’t understand why I couldn’t go to the special group anymore, 😂
“…….FUKC!!!!!!!” priceless
I was in the special needs programs in school and I pushed so hard to do well in school even though it was hard to the point it would make me cry. When I was five they said I wouldn’t be able to read. By the time I was in 3rd grade I could read at a college level. It was a gift from God to be placed in a class of fifteen kids and be able to get the extra time and large print materials I needed without being made fun of or called stupid by the teacher
I was forced to learn basic English sounds in grade 3, when I started reading at 3 years old. It really confused me why I was placed in a special needs class. Yes I have dyslexia, but also simultaneously hyperlexia. Makes language learning interesting
that sounds like a nightmare to diagnose! it’s like having super speed but you can’t walk lmao
Yep. In 2nd grade I was sent to the special needs class to learn to read. I was already reading stuff well above my grade level, but I was slow to do it due to undiagnosed dyslexia.
Two years later when we took the big standardized test, suddenly they put me in the gifted class.
Wait wait wait, no this isn't possible. Why am I learning stuff that could potentially explain my entire life just from CZcams comments 💀💀💀
My dyslexia went undiagnosed for years because I've had an above college level reading comprehension since 4th grade. Don't fxckin tell me there's actually a word for that??
I took ‘writing and reading’ in my lunch hour. I didn’t know not every kid had to do it and honestly am so embarrassed about it now. I just didn’t like to read because my elementary teacher essentially told me I was useless at it and moved me from the highest reading group to the lowest
That's messed up. Lady shouldn't teach
What's a reading group
@@mariannasiemou8293 a group of people who read aloud together. Our grade was separated by ability so I was in the high ability group of the two until she moved me.
I love this guy so much
Seeing his videos every other day always makes me smile lol
I was lazy to do homework for math, my school took that as I was incompetent and tried to put me in the easiest tiers of classes, my mom argued with the teachers to put me in the hardest of math classes. Without doing homework my grade percentage was averaging 37%, pissed my teacher off so much, he said if I could pass the final exam with any passing grades, I’ll get an automatic 50% to pass the class, without studying I got 64% and proved I knew my math at least 😂
Damn dude I feel your pain 😂😂I failed Spanish 1 in middle school and had to take the “resource class” till high school then in high school I took a “College & Career Development” which was just a fancy word for helping all the slow kids with our resumes and homework 😭😭
I was convinced my 'tutoring' class was perfectly normal until I found the booklets a few years and googled them.
Focus class is a graduation requirement
Standing like you’re waiting for your turn to share in the focus class 😂
Honestly, I'm just glad that some school somewhere was actually trying to help students.
dude I didn't know i was diagnosed with autism at 11 until I was 25...
wish we took focus class together 🥺
My brother has ASD and he is currently taking communication classes. He has difficulty communicating clearly to others and struggles to understand emotion so every Wednesday in his second hour, instead of his assigned class (dance) he goes to a different classroom and learns what being upset looks like (those classes have not worked so far. He has been taking them sense freshman year).
Yeah I feel this. I can’t remember the name of it but after my second concussion I had to start going to “private counseling” classes
I'm only discovering this myself at 25 thanks to you man, they just put me in that class because I would always sleep and just procrastinate all my class/home work because I just didn't really care. Had straight F's and a low ass GPA of like less than one iirc.
The teacher and her aide were both awesome people though, and the handful of other kids were chill af once you got to better understand them and their behaviors/triggers. I just ended up doing my work for the day in that class and helping the other kids out, since I was put in that class to get extra help it's not like the teacher could just let me do nothing. So she actually worked at inspiring me to want to apply myself more so than focusing on the subject matters since I had a solid grasp on them, gave me real world examples to apply this knowledge towards instead of the underpaid response of "it's on the FCAT test so you need to learn it to make the school look better"
What do you do for a living now?
In elementary i was in the "Pinocchio program"... if you're curious. Look it up, it's pretty upfront with the description. It took me until I was like 19 to realize "oooh, that program wasn't from me getting good grades"
Ugh I was in special education as well. I remember being so angry. One day, I think I was about 10, I was sitting alone pouting with my arms crossed at my little circle table while the other children played with a hedgehog. Our aid left the room for a minute and I lashed out at the other kids and said ‘everyone knows we’re here because they think we’re stupid!’. We would get taken from our regular home room for part of the day. I found it humiliating. Getting up from my desk and trudging out into the hall while everyone stared quietly at you, knowing why you were leaving. The other children playing with the hedgehog just stared at me shocked. One of the girls started crying. The aid came back and I got into trouble, very rightly. I was just so angry. I had ADHD, and I struggled but I definitely didn’t need to be there. I still feel bad about it to this day.
I got put in a club for bad mental health, I have never talked to teachers about anything, they just went "Yep, that ones sad."
Instead of math in elementary school I learned to not have a lisp
How is it now? Did you manage to eliminate it? Just curious
@@Rain1 it only comes out when I get stressed
as someone who had a speech impediment + slight learning difficulties
i knew the punchlines of 4 and 4 💀 LMFAOO
I would’ve killed to have not known I was in a special needs class as a kid when my teacher told me I had to take that class was probably the first real anxiety attack I ever had and hurt my confidence a lot during school
Honestly I think a lot of kids should take a class like that. I was surprised how many kids that I went to high school with didn't know how to take proper notes. They always borrowed mine. I was also in a "special class" to help with my dyslexia and ADHD and they taught me really good tips.
This just made me remember/realize I had an anger management/empathy class when I was in elementary school. There were maybe 8 of us and one kid had a handler. 2 teachers taught it I think. It’s hard to remember, I only have fragments up until I was 14 or so.
My teachers told me I had a stuttering problem so that I would be sent to a special class during my regular class hour in Elementary school. I have NEVER had a stuttering problem. But they got rid of me and that’s all they cared about.
telling kids they have a stutering problem is literally how you give them a stutter. scientists did it in the 40s back when you could do crazy experiments publicly. I can't believe your teachers are that daft.
I was in special ed the first couple years of elementary school. The story goes that the principal had me evaluated by a psychologist. He try to make me put together a puzzle with a carrot. I just stared at him. My family didn’t eat carrots! I didn’t know what it was. Anyway, I made the A honor role and showed him up.
“How many people took that class?” I laughed
frankly, it's not much better on the other side of the aisle. i was extremely accelerated as a child, we're talking 9th grade reading comprehension and spelling work in the 3rd grade. there was absolutely _not_ a gifted program at my little podunk elementary school, and so while i thank them for trying their best, i have memories of being shipped off to the computer lab all alone to take a 150 question midterm while my friends were hanging out in the classroom.
didn't do any favors for my relationships. made me seem completely unapproachable. i had to teach social mores to myself to come back from it.
I didn't even realise i was in it either until i look back at my memories and remember one of my best friends had downs and one had autism. I was super adhd and never thought anything until one day i heard no one else in school did "special" where's waldo tests
Nah but I wishh they realised this is the class my AuDHD ass actually needed 😭
They put me in the "gifted" classes.. and although I was hyper/distractable/fixated AFFF 🤪🤸🏾♀️ teachers never flagged it cos I happened to do well on paper.
It's beyond me one realised.. I actually needed extra help! I ended up taking on waay too much in the end and completely burnt out after my first year of uni.. life's been flip turned upside down since 😅
Without the structure school gives you, having to structure your own life and motivate yourself.. lol no matter how "naturally gifted" you are.. It'll be scattered like a confetti canon mate xD
Starting absolutely everything, but also having a billion and one almost finished but never actually completed damn things in the end cos you're so widespread and burnt out! It's a catch 22.. I never actually got to develop the study skills and functional skills I needed to be able to get through life like everyone else 😅
I just happened to do well at stuff but I had no idea why.. It's like winning the lottery but loosing it in no time cos you never had to develop your ability to deal with money properly, as you would've had you worked hard to earn it. 🤷🏾 Finally learning how to work with my neurodivergence at 28 🙃
Omg! Yesss! Starting a zillion different things but never being able to actually finish any of them!! I think it was really hard for those of us that did well in school w/out behavior problems bc that seemed to be the only ppl I ever knew to be diagnosed with add/adhd. I grew up in a really small town..
@@misshell2223 ah yes! Cos I would get in trouble a lot but not for bad behaviour, for distracting the other kids out of boredommmmm xD
I was so happy cause I was apart of a special book club. I came home and told my mom all about it! Then I sat down and thought about like a year ago
I was so oblivious to my learning disabilities that it took me until my 20's to realize I've had dyslexia this entire time, explains my low reading skill, poor comprehension, math isn't something I'm good at, my poor vision doesn't cause entire sentences to shift or even replacing entire words to one's that aren't there and lastly it was very difficult for me to grasp at a foreign language. I was under the assumption that the only symptoms of dyslexia that existed and have ever been talked about on television are the two I so happen not to have, the most obvious sign of dyslexia I had I assumed was my poor vision. I had at one point autism, diagnosed combined type ADHD aaannnddd of course undiagnosed dyslexia the 3 things people typically have together. I struggled for years with reading comprehension until I took a class in High School for it, the most embarrassing part was when I couldn't locate the answer that was in 2 paragraphs or even remember where somewhere was.... that's how bad it was. Luckily I had a very patient and supportive teacher to help push me to keep looking.
Bro 😭 Same here with me I didn’t even realize I was in the Specail Ed class when I was in Elementary school in Mississippi till now 😂😂
They called it the “Gifted Program” And they’d pull us out of my regular classes and It was super fun I loved playin Apple and apples 🍏&🍎 but then I realized that Wait!?… my grades kinda sucked and i wasn’t in there for Being “gifted” as being to smart so Now I’ve just accepted I’m sped or somethin
💀😭
Dang bro, you got in? I didn't pass the test. In third grade I got called lazy and sent back to kindergarten for a day. 😆
@@SonyasUntreatedMental_illness 💀😭😂😂 Dang Lol so you were to dumb to get in like the dumb class???
Gifted isn't special needs lmao
Was this late 90's?
@@Gibbypastrami They literally are though
lol, that "Fuck" at the end.
Tbh I loved and appreciated I was in special ed programs from 3rd-7th grade. The instructors I interacted with genuinely cared about my success and person, and I enjoyed my fellow classmates since we tended to have things in common (ex: interests, home lives, etc.). I think one of the hardest parts of “graduating” out of the program was I wouldn’t spend the same amount of time with the friends I made there. And just like props to the instructors that care for their students 💞 y’all are awesome
SAME lmao. I had to go to "resource" and there was an aid for every one of us. I didn't realize not everyone did that until way later
I got this special tutoring session for my process delay at another school after I finished my full day at regular school, and for the longest time I thought I went to two schools, and that’s what I always told people, it made them really confused
All children need this kind of 1:1 focus and attention in learning areas they lack to be successful
More people need that class
In middle school, I was part of a focus class as well. They called it BAC, Behavioral Adjustment Courses. Of course I was aware of this, but not the nature of WHY I belonged there. Needless to say, when I thought of some of my strange habits back in middle school, yeah, I belonged there xD
I had all the focus in the world when I went to an alternative school and it was finally quiet. No teachers giving lessons, no other students talking, and I didn't have to ask permission to grab a snack from the vending machine or to use the restroom. And I was able to graduate early. I wish I'd switched sooner.
Same. Was so much easier
when he said 4 the second time I CHOKED 😅🤣🤣
For some reason the delivery of expletive at the end really sealed it. It was a lol for me!
It takes a special need person to figure that out only 20 years later. It is also cute how he needed a teacher to guide him through that realization 🤣
My parents wanted me to be “in” on the conversation when the counselors were trying to get me in that class. I was screaming up and down (cause I didn’t know any better) “PLEASE PLEASE! I’m not retarded, don’t put me in that class!” Especially cause I didn’t wanna be the one friend in the group that had the easiest thing to rib on. Hell no.
this was the convo that me and my friend had in highschool before we graduated 😂 she had no idea she was actually in a special ed class bc she got to take other classes. I had to explain the entire process to her cause no one had the heart to 😢
They just told me I can't try to fight everyone and put me in a "behavioral class" 😂
I can confirm that the focus class was fun, but it definitely didn't help me be better at paying attention.
Same lol
Exact same situation, I learned from my dad when I was 22 that the “anger management class” I was in in grade 2 was actually the special needs group. I was only in there briefly but I never caught on. I wasn’t even a kid that acted up so I never understood why I was put in there.
The more I listen to this the more it reminds me of the "extra support" class that I had to take in high school. To help with organization, have quiet time with tests, and to have extra help with assignments.. I literally had multiple choices for spelling, the more I look back at it the more I feel shook. Since we all had our own separate teacher to help us or to bring us out of the classroom with them.
I feel this on. A personal level like I skip that conversation all together because its hard to explain lol
Great vid man! Keep it up, just subbed. I wear hearing aids and when I was in school I had to take a special class cause it was so hard for me to hear lol
Thank you sir. We would have gotten along
@@thejoebegs most definitely 👍
They called it “Gifted and Talented” in my middle school😂😂😂
are you sure you weren’t in an accelerated class?
@@Dr_zevia I really don’t know what was going on back then, I just remember every other day they would take me out of class to the “Gifted and Talented” room where we solved puzzles and shit like that
@@Dr_zevia and I think it was in elementary school not middle school
@@Butterss420 could be either
Was able to mask my way through school. One of the biggest things against me figuring out I was likely Autistic was that I [thought I] understood idioms really well. You know, the stereotypical thing that Autistic kids struggle with. When I finally decided to go down the route of seeing if I was Autistic, I chalked up my understanding of idioms to a class activity we did in 6th grade.
We'd write down an idiom and then draw the literal meaning; i.e. for "hit the road" which means to begin a journey, we'd draw someone hitting the road. I BUSTED out mini poster after mini poster. I thought I was so good at it.
10 YEARS LATER I'm thinking about experiences I should tell my counselor about to see if it would be part of a possible 'semi-diagnosis' (closest her credentials could get me was a 'it's likely you could be') and I realized 90% OF MY POSTERS WERE COMPOUND WORDS!!!! I didn't know the difference between an idiom and a compound word!!!
That last bit may be a tad dramatic. I knew what compound words were, I just apparently thought many compound words were also idioms.
BUT MY TEACHER NEVER SAID ANYTHING TO ME ABOUT IT!!!
In our schools it was called 'gifted class'. When the teacher of my daughter told me that my daughter qualified for that class I was very flattered.
Years later it became clear out was THIS! But she still went places and has a stellar career today.....
i like how the point of the class was to teach others to pay attention, but it took him until 26 to realise this
I got sent to alternative school for criminals on probation or juvenile parole...
And ive never been convicted of a crime in my life, i was sent there bc of skateboarding. 😳
Damn, that is some bullshit
I was put in a gifted class, but it wasn't advanced (it also was entirely based on how long you had been in the school and who you knew) it was literally just a faster version of regular class. My grades slipped because I wasn't doing the simpler work fast enough (multiple tables IN 7/8TH GRADE). So I stopped trying. Nothing would get me to try any harder than a B+ average and all my teachers knew I lost my interest in learning and was only doing enough to get by. I was the laziest student, but that weirdly also meant I was the best student. Had "gifted" friends who studied till they had migraines and stressed when their grade dropped below an A+, why go through all that stress when I can just make a B and breeze by no studying.