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Your post disgusts me, because it shows the pervasive and terribly negative assumptions teachers make about their students with special needs.

That they're basically unaware. And that their parents are clueless.

No, they're not, and we're not.

My 5th grader and some other children I know with IEPs know full well that their appearance has social consequences. They have been teased and bullied. In that knowledge and that experience, they still have dress preferences. My son works very hard to satisfy everyone around him - his peers' dress code, my exigencies on clean clothes, his sensorial rejection of any artificial fibers, etc. He can articulate for me which priority he has considered and which he has rejected that morning. It occupies a part of his mind which should be occupied more fruitfully.

And he has to do this not only with clothes, but with ALL the other aspects of his quirky personality - trying to get it to fit molds which are put upon him by society, while striving to keep his identity and what makes him his own person. It's bloody WORK.

Don't you think it's awful that you, a grown-up, should reinforce that pressure? You should be the voice of tolerance and acceptance! My son's neurotypical friends DO NOT CARE what he looks like! They care that he's taken his meds so that he can joke about with them, follow their banter and play Minecraft.

Shame on you, OP.
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