Freshman Year Research Paper

My freshman year at SLUH started off in an interesting way. I was enrolled into the reading course during the summer. I had a small class with eight or nine other students. There was one student in particular that really stood out from the rest of us. He had no filter whatsoever. I have never experienced someone like this in my and so I really had no clue to act or respond to the student. He would scream out random facts throughout the course that had nothing to do with the book that we were reading. Everyone in the class kept urging him on to more stuff like that and I usually found myself doing the same. For some reason we all thought this was the funniest thing in the world. It became a routinely thing throughout the summer. I could see my summer school teacher getting

I knew that something was wrong with the student and he didn’t function the same way as us. My summer school teacher made a comment to me on the last day saying that I have leadership in me and that I should really help out this student throughout the year. I told me my teacher that I would do just that.
I remember first walking in on that first day of school and saw many students picking on him and teasing him. Deep down I knew I should stop it, but being a freshman and wanting to make a good first impression I subtly chimed in. I had disregard everything my teacher had told me. As the day went on I found out that I had multiple classes with this student. The teasing continued in each class. When biology came along everyone was teasing and picking on the student until our teacher dismissed him from class. He told us the truth about the student and told us that he has Aspergers. That really hit me hard. I really took my summer school teachers