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Transitions? OMG That’s an Awesome idea…

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…but why are you 10 years behind the 8 ball?

I sit on a planning committee of an annual conference for families who live in my state -the state I live in, and I sit and have to listen to a couple hours almost every month about people presenting ideas about transition planning.

And I sit there quietly like a wallflower.

I sit like I have severe autism.

I remain quiet.

I don’t like to come off as threatening or combative.

I just sit there.

And hopefully people of the intellectual class and the professional class gets their heads out of their rear ends and understand that while this is good for the second or third generation of autistics (or developmentally disabled people) in my state, the state I live in – what about the thirtysomethings who are limping around the system just trying to get through a day? Some may not be able to verbalize because they can’t put their concerns into words, or they have been severely manipulated by a bunch of racist psychologists who think its OK to ruin a child’s brain at their teenage years, and screw them off as they become adults and not have any clue what unintended consequences they do to these people.

Excuse me for being crass: I could care less about the goddamned spoiled rotten brats in special ed! Who gives a flying bleep about “the children!” What about the goddamned adults that the professionals could care less about?

I wished I wasn’t a monster, but I sadly became one in many ways thanks to the goddamned idiots running SAU 12, GLEC and dare I say “Doctor” Teresa Bolick who with all their failures caused me to become a scary person. Now I know why people run away from me. It’s these nitwits that should be on death row!

The controlled rants are over. 🙂

If you’re new to this site, let me be clear: I live in a state where we were the first in the nation to close a statewide “school” for autistic like people; but its also the same state where people have pushed “progressive” agendas that have resulted in “regressive” actions. I also live in the most richest towns probably per capita and those communities have absolutely zero tolerance for people with developmental disabilities (if you are under the age of say 21.) You (or your child, your “friend” from elementary school, or family member) has basically been hopeless since entering middle school; and some of these people have been hopeless as early as the end of the 20th Century. 

Divided Special Needs “Teams” = Hopeless Autistics

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I laugh about how there are IEP “team meetings” because in reality, there apparently is an “I” in the word team.

At least on the special ed level, and least in some areas in the Granite State.

Again in some areas, the culture in the special ed system, is all about silos, firewalls and safety mechanisms to protect each others interest. Unless you have the luxury of having an advocate involved, you’re out of luck.

I really am saddened how the New Hampshire special education and special needs system is all political. Sadly in your child’s live its not like Speaker of the House Tip O’Neil (D, Mass) and President Ronald Reagan (R) where they had differences, but worked in the best interest of the United States. On a very nano level, an IEP team is more divided than a political caucus. What’s more disturbing is the politics are more divisive when the child is in that grey years of 18 to 21.

There is no such thing as unity, unification, a common goal for the individual themselves. It’s political exploitation, manipulation and not enforcing basic IDEA rights and getting away with it only because the family is too ignorant or too poor to take legal action. Perhaps being too scared for recourse by the school systems.

This type of division I am a victim of. I use present tense, because the chars of glass that was broken in the high school years have not been put fully back together.

The system is broken. We need to stop having the professionals think about what they want from the child, and be open to what child or family wants. The disruption to the existing system should’ve began 10 to 15 years ago, but of course, politics stalled this. Now we need to enforce this disruption of service delivery so this nightmare of hopeless autistics can stay as a bad dream instead.

The New “Evil”

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I have a very dark prediction that in about 5 years, we will have a new “evil”. Not just ISIS or Al-Queda on steroids. But something not in the traditional sense of “evil”, but something north of bad—. We have more people more careless, more thoughtless, less accountable people than ever before.

Why?

It’s the rise of the “professional class” or anything of a 4 to 6 year degrees of college educated people. They aren’t taught to have common sense, and they are taught to read the books, and whatever the books say must be true. Meanwhile these “professionals” are believing in the gunk as described yesterday and now these “professionals” who are taught to be “objective”, to “not have emotions” to “protect ones privacy” and to have hands-off approach to these most vulernable citizens of our society are the ones that will screw up our children more than to help!

White collared crime is on the rise. They see someone in pain, but because they tout “That’s not my job”, or “that’s out of my pay grade”, “it’s not in my job title”, and its this arrogance I’ve previously described, college educated, and indoctrinated to be a “professional”, and they just let a person like me crash down to the ground being psychologically kicked around by other “professionals” and say “well that’s not my job” and go home and not have any remorse. If I can use an example, my high school teacher fit this narrative perfectly.

It’s not to say that all professionals are bad. It’s not to say that there are people who work in the corner-suite of the local SAU or “central” offices and not having to be around, or be disrupted by people acting out. They can sit there, shuffle papers, answer phone calls, send emails and have no duty to go to the schools and see the problems they create.

“Professionals” are no different than the crooks who destroyed Enron or even someone like a Bernie Madoff. I’d bet some special ed management even said things in an interview with a tone like Jeff Skilling: “I’m f—–g smart!”

Some people may think I have some conspircary theory, that the school and special needs systems are out to get Steven A specifically. No only criminal systems are out to get people by specific names. All I’m saying there were many, many people involved in my schooling, and yet they really did nothing to stop the bleeding. I assume Concord had known me by name, but they don’t oversee things unlike the adult system under DHHS.

These people have gotten away with doing harm and evil with me, and yet they continue to lurk in the public sector of the New Hampshire School Administrative Units and the Public Schools in Massachusetts. Who will try these people to hell? Are they too scared? Or they think it won’t happen politically?

Something needs to be done.