When my autism group had lunch in a college canteen, my teacher always had my class leave for lunch early. Why do you think that was?
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Maybe because some ignorant people stare at anyone who is different. It gives this group time to sit down first. My granddaughter has a disability and some children stare because they have never been taught manners.
It has nothing to do with autism. Every group that is going to lunch together needs to get there early or late. If they arrive right on time it will take so long to get their food that lunch time will be mostly over before they can even begin.
I always did everything I could to convince the organizers of meetings and classes to let us go a half an hour early. When I had classes that took up the morning and the afternoon I always let them out a half a hour before the official lunch break.
It is ugly when masses of people arrive at a small restaurant or canteen at exactly the same time.
It’s so your autistic group doesn’t get overwhelmed by the ques for lunch.
From my experience of being autistic, large ques can be rather difficult as there are lots of sensory inputs which can easier overload an autist.
So by getting to lunch early, your group can avoid the ques.
Because some people with autism do not do well with people they don’t know or big crowds. A line or a FULL HALL explains this perfectly. They left early so they don’t have to deal with stuff that could set them off.
My kids’ teachers do similar. The point is to get the experience but to make it a little bit easier. Leaving early means less noise, less overstimulation, and so forth.
If you have a teacher, you are not a college student. At the college level, they are referred to as instructors, associate professors or professors.
You refer to an autism group then a class. Groups, clubs and teams are informal and not accredited. For that reason, breaking early for lunch would be considered acceptable.
What Nathan said – plus autistic people can have OCD issues and difficulty making choices or decisions that require extra time.
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Wow! That’s very nice! Special privileges indeed! Sweet victory! If you left for lunch with everyone else (the herd) and mixed in with the hustle and bustle of the lunch rush crowd being shoved “accidentally” (not all accidents are really accidents 😒) on a regular basis, and having to squeeze through a cafeteria doorway with the rest of the classes into the cafeteria that’s always in excess of capacity, (when the cafeteria has standing room only because all of the seats are taken, something has got to be terribly wrong somewhere, but I’m not a police officer so👮) it would not be a very pleasant experience at all for you or anyone else in the school cafeteria. I guess the hope to sit while eating is a very good reason to rush to lunch. Plus, the hungry crowd is on the clock, ⏰ and time waits for no one. You really have it made! I was in high school for four years and never had lunch in the crowded cafeteria once. For the first three years of high school, I was a hallway snacker. When I became a senior class officer, we were allowed to eat in a classroom. I’m pretty sure there was a “no eating allowed” sign somewhere. I don’t remember caring enough to check. You really have a golden opportunity. You can avoid the maddening crowd. That’s nice. 🙂