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The boy who offended Aspergers

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I have Aspergers Syndrome, I was diagnosed with it at age 7 in 2008 during 1st class, 7 years ago. I only found out about Aspergers this year, January 2015 but this post is something an Aspie would dread. On 25th March 2015, I was coming home from a school trip to Wexford Heritage Park when near the Windy Gap, a boy yelled across the bus "ASPERGER'S!" and his friends laughed. I looked up and I saw him dark brown comb over and a cheeky grin on his face. He then yelled other things about it that was complete propaganda on it. I sank into my seat and watched the world go by with nothing to do. My earphones died and I didn't want to blare Minecraft across the bus. When we got back to Portlaoise College, I came out, hiding the frown until I told mum in the car, I felt like crying from it. It left scars. I told dad and he contacted Noel Daly (a few times because of being busy), the principle of Portlaoise College and he said that he would look into it. The next day, I to