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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hannah Gadsby wrote a whole book about it.  Autistic self-insight as monologue is within the zeitgeist.  I wouldn’t do it for fear of being MeToo/PickMe, but maybe a male applicant can.  As an AO, I’d be annoyed and wouldn’t choose him.  And I am autistic.  [/quote]

listen if Tim Walz as a white male can lie about his military service and not be called out by the press, this kid can certainly write about this as a male applicant. Think this is a home run[/quote]

Sure!  Lean into the white male privilege and mansplain how your unique and special brain works, and how you know this already at age 17-18 before any college education, .. might impress a male reader!  I’m an autistic female AO reader and I would skip this candidate.  Just being honest.

What I would endorse though would be a “show, don’t tell” approach. Like, show me how you’ve learned how to communicate and socialize: what have you done and how have you learned how to use the strengths of your autism to connect and be part of a community (like you’ll have to do at college).  Bonus points if you can tie in research or alum from that college who is ASD, how and why you think you can benefit the college other than just your big snowflake brain and how much you know about yourself.  [/quote]

DP.  My white, male, ASD kid is still a year away from college admissions.  He's been working on social communication for years.  Last year he volunteered with MCPS for their summer ELO program.  He wants a job as a math tutor this year and I told him he had to get some "teaching experience"  So under the direction of the teacher, he worked with younger kids on math and science projects. He was quickly able to connect to a few kids who were quirky like him.  Is this the type of "show, don't tell" that you're referring to?[/quote]

Bonus points if he can say that he helped the quirky kids fit in with their peers, or translated their quirkiness to the teacher, or someone aided in INCLUSION without needing supports (it’s legal to need supports of course, but discrimination is real).  The most effective essays show that the writer is an advocate, not someone who needs something.  Show how he will help the college, not that he knows what he will need from the college.  [/quote]

Thank you for this.  He enjoyed the experience and plans to do it again next summer.  When he tells me about his day, I'll document when he tells me about helping a kid fit in or being able to help the child in some way.  Then we'll have it when it's time to write the essay.[/quote]

That’s a good plan!  [/quote]

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