Teagan
Website Manager and Creative Director
Hi, my name is Teagan, I’m 18 years old and I have Autism.
I was diagnosed with Autism when I was about 3 years old, so a long time ago.
I used to go to a SEN (Special Educational Needs) school and am now currently going to college
I’ve been going to this school since about 2009 and college since 2022.
So I know quite a bit about Autism from myself, children from my school and research. One day I would love to work with Autistic people/people with Autism and disabilities.
And I know from first hand experiences how hard it is having autism or knowing that your different from anyone else.
Even though I have been in a SEN school most of my life, I live in a small town\Village where some of the kids are not the kindest, I use to do clubs after school, I tried to play with the other kids but they didn’t seem to like me or give me weird looks, and I did get bullied a bit but not as bad as my other friends from school used to, so I’m grateful that it wasn’t as bad as it could have been.
I didn’t understand what was wrong with me or why kids didn’t like me, I found out why when I was 11, I found out that I had Autism, the kids didn’t like me or want to hang around me because I was different, not “normal”, This kind of made all of it worst because now I know what was the “problem” and I couldn’t fix it, I couldn’t just not be Autistic. So I just left the clubs and kind of just gave up on trying to fit in, there where some kids I hung out with but then stopped when Covid 19 hit.
It still makes me sad to think about but I know now that the friends I do have enjoy being around with me and I’m happy I have those friends and people in my life.
People think that Autism is something that’s needs to be fixed or a problem that’s needs to be solved, and I thought that about myself for a long time, but it’s not something to be fixed or solved.
The people in my school who have Autism are some of the most talented and imaginative people I’ve have ever met, they are amazing and I wonder how they come up with all the ideas and thing that I would have never thought of myself.
And I sometimes come up with ideas and theories that the staff at my school would never have thought of, to be honest I don’t see why people want to “fix” us, we are awesome.
That’s why I’m doing this blog thing, to show people how amazing we are and what we can do.
If you have read all this then, thanks, hope you like the site
Teagan
Autistic World 