Autism

So a couple of months ago, I had an interview for my first job. The director told me that it doesn’t require a lot of experience, just that I needed to be comfortable. I applied for an assistant teacher position at a daycare, and the director placed me in the four-year-old, two year-old, and one year-old classrooms.

I did really well with the one and two year-old classrooms, but really struggled in the four year old classroom. Unfortunately, that was the class the director was looking in first, and she immediately noticed my discomfort. I feel so stupid for not just sticking to the other two classrooms, as I know that’s the age group I work the best with.

I desperately want this job, and have written an email to the director stating where I went wrong and why, and asking for a second chance. The main reason I did poorly was because my mom had discouraged me prior, as she stated that with me being autistic, I might not have what it takes to do this job, despite always telling me that I work well with kids. This led to me freezing up around kids I normally work well with.

Anyway, my goal is to hopefully get a second chance, this time I’m not going to tell my mom as I don’t want to get discouraged again. The picture above is the email I sent to the director, I’ve never had to write one of these, so I hope it’s good enough.