What could the teachers have done? What do you think, looking back, what would have helped you in school?
Not being so bloody awkward. [laughs] Things like, say my little brother’s in school at the moment. He is ADHD and like, to help him concentrate he likes to like you know mess with something, I don’t know, like a piece of string or a pen or something like that. And you know, if it is something like a piece of string or a piece of elastic then he won’t be disrupting anyone, but the teachers take it off him anyway, because you know it is not normal. I swear some of the teachers are the most AS people that I know, it is all so, so inflexible. You know everyone has to be the same and do the same and if you change that then they throw a little hissy fit. So I think just be a bit more, like if the teachers were a bit more accommodating that would have helped a lot.
I think my art teacher, every time I went out to speak to like my friends or something he would phone up, he would phone up mum and say, “Oh well, Luke is outside speaking.” Like you know, “He is speaking to someone.” And mum would just go, “So?” And he would go, “Ah, he is cured.” And he just really didn’t get it. But just things like, you know, if someone say needs to have the homework written on the board and say for it to be wrote at the start, sorry not the start of the lesson, but say ten minutes before the lesson finishes rather than five minutes when the bell has just gone because he needs to concentrate on that, you know, to be able to do things like that without being so inflexible all the time, that would have helped a lot. Hm.
