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In my district you are put in a no-hire list if you quit during the school year or without giving enough notice to find a replacement. They will also decline to recommend you to any other district that calls for a reference check should you try to teach again elsewhere .

With all due respect you’re comparing apples to oranges. Education in Sweden looks nothing like the shitshow that is education in the United States. Our schools are over crowded, under funded, and horribly managed. We don’t have resources to safely pull this off.

I have sort of a follow up question to theirs. I’m fairly certain I am on the spectrum. I test very highly on quotient tests, it runs on one side of my family, and I’ve come to recognize many of the same characteristics my diagnosed students have in myself. However, being a girl and of high intelligence I am capable of masking well for brief periods and worry that I may have a hard time being seen as or believed to be autistic. For those reasons, along with others (figuring out how to best navigate my career/social life without high anxiety or burnout) I feel like it would be beneficial to get an official diagnosis. Have you found there are downsides to having your diagnosis in writing? How would you recommend one go about getting tested/diagnosed? I don’t even know where to begin. Also, knowing how under-diagnosed it is in women, and based on some horror stories I’ve heard, I also worry about not being taken seriously or getting misdiagnosed with something else that’s more common in my demographic. Any advice on how to navigate that? Thanks!

Just one more republican misnomer

I just wanted to say that I’m proud of you for standing up for yourself and your students. I wish had the courage and financial stability to do the same. I’m just sort of crossing my fingers and hoping for the best here in NC