This is something that many of us are writing, mostly children of the community, with help from adults as far as spelling and punctuation go. There has been extra spacing given between the lines for each speaker, and each speaker’s part begins with the words, “I am not your nice third grade girl.”
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I am not your nice third grade girl.
I get scared when I’m stuck on a math question and nobody says anything, and when I get scared, I stop talking, but that’s not why I’m not your nice third grade girl.
I’m not your nice third grade girl.
When she stops talking, it’s my job to try and make sure the grown ups know what’s happening.
I do that through behaviors, since now we can’t talk because she’s scared.
She would do these things herself, but she says she’s just blind, and people who are just blind don’t do those things, so I have to do it.
I know I can never be told by a doctor, but I have autism…and that’s not why I’m not your nice third grade girl.
I’m not your nice third grade girl.
He’s not the only one who acts like that when we get stressed about something. There’s a whole group behind him, that do what he does.
There’s a group behind me too, and we’re the ones who come out after his group’s done being out here, because of what the adults are gunna do now.
I’m here to handle it when they force us to leave the classroom, me and the group behind me handle it when we have to go to another room and pretend to be calm again so everybody here can do what they love doing, and I don’t like it, but that’s not why I’m not your nice third grade girl.
We are not your nice third grade girl because we had to act like it.
We are not your nice third grade girl because it was an act that was forced on us.
We were never a nice third grade girl. She was nothing more than a lie.
I am Jenifer, and I am not your nice third grade girl.
I am Collin, and I am not your nice third grade girl.
I am Elaina, and I am not your nice third grade girl.
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