My Special Education Timeline

By PaytonS
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    Parents with Physical/Mental Disabilities

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    Parents with Disabilities

    Both parents struggle with addiction, both have ADHD. Father legally physically disabled.
  • Age 7

    Youngest cousin diagnosed with Aspergers
  • Age 7

    Playing with Tommy, other kids make fun
  • Age 8

    Brandon F's Birthday Party. He had an intellectual disability. He invited the whole class, and only myself and one other student showed up.
  • Age 8

    Playing with Tommy, who had an intellectual disability, other kids make fun of us.
  • Age 9

    Mom tells me a story about how she punched another kid in the face during high school because he was making fun of a disabled student.
  • Age 9

    Brandon F's birthday
  • Age 17

    First ASL class with a deaf professor
  • Age 17

    Took first ASL class with a deaf professor
  • Age 22

    Father diagnosed with permanent brain damage
  • Age 22

    Read my first IEP
  • Age 22

    Read first IEP
  • Age 22

    Father diagnosed with permanent brain damage
  • Age 23

    went to my first IEP Meeting
  • Age 23

    Went to first IEP Meeting