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Tuan Quang
Professor Batty
English 113B
7 April 2016
Unusual People Can Make Miracles
Nowadays, autism discrimination is an argument that we need to discuss. Some people
think that autistic people cannot understand what normal people communicate so that
discrimination is inevitable. Especially, in an academic school, some normal students can treat
them unfairly by bullying, teasing, and beating autistic students. Moreover, sometimes, people
try to separate autistic students by provide self-contained classes, which are special classes for all
autistic students with few instructors. Although people think autistic students should have only
self-contained classes because they cannot communicate as normal students in school, I want to
dispute that autistic students should have mainstream classes in order to help them develop their
skills and help them to become successful students in the future.
People usually think that autistic students cannot communicate clearly because of limits
in their thinking. Conversely, autistic students have abilities in their critical and visual thinking
that are necessary for companies look for their positions. According to Kara Hume, she indicates,
Brain imaging studies and research on visual tasks show that many people with autism have
enhanced mental imagery and superior visual thinking, compared to typically developing people
(Hume). Kara confirms that people who have autism have advances in critical thinking so that
they can work more efficiently than normal people. From this point, we can infer that autistic
students can understand incisively different problems that they have to encounter. Because of
their talents, they can understand quickly every lesson that teachers teach in class. Autistic

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students can actually expand their abilities in thinking if school provides them mainstream
classes. Mainstream classes can help them develop their thinking because they will work and
communicate with people in the future. It is a reason why people should provide them
mainstream classes in order let them prepare academic skills for their lives. Beside mainstream
classes, autistic students need special classes in order to help them learn every fundamental skills
such as: cooking, paying money, learning how to use computers, and taking care of themselves.
When people let autistic students study in two types of these classes, autistic students can reveal
their potentials of learning. As a result, autistic students will gain their knowledge and become
better students in peoples eyes. Mainstream class and self-contained class are bases to provide
them necessary skills for their future so that they need not only mainstream classes but also selfcontained classes.
On the other hand, autistic students can actually communicate with people normally.
Although autistic students cannot talk apparently or cannot express their thoughts easily, they can
share their ideas with people when people know how to behave with them correctly. Each autistic
student has different behaviors so that teachers have to understand clearly in order to have better
solutions. According to Charlie Remy and Priscilla Seaman, Successful teachers and librarians
recognize the importance of creating an environment that is conducive to learning, both physical
and emotional (Remy, Seaman 26). Authors both indicate an importance of teaching autistic
students is that teachers have to create an environment for these students in order to let them feel
comfortable so that they can express their thoughts or write down their ideas easily. It is a reason
why teachers or instructors need to be trained carefully so that autistic students can have the best
environment to study. Moreover, mainstream classes can help autistic students work on
communication more than self-contained classes because of doing a teamwork together. Not only

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teachers, students can learn how to talk with autistic students because they can be best friends
that we expect to. The more we know autistic students behaviors, the more they can feel easily
to express themselves. To sum up my point, communication can be hard for autistic students;
however, in mainstream classes, students can have increase their communication skills gradually.
Subsequently, compared to normal people, autistic people may have to overcome many
obstacles in life. By making them feel inclusive, you can help to build up their confidence to
become successful people in our society. In order to demonstrate this point, C. A. Wolski reviews
a movie, Temple Grandin. Temple Grandin [is] a brilliant scientist and engineer who singlehandedly reformed the meatpacking industry by improving both the way cattle are treated and
the means by which the animals are led to slaughter (Wolski). Temple Grandin is an autistic
woman who graduated from Arizona State University and had an amazing innovation in making
animals feel less painful when they are killed. Although she was an autistic person, she could
overcome her challenges to become a scientist. At the beginning, she had felt insecure about
everything she learned; however, her professor had understood her and made her discover her
abilities. Finally, she could earn her degree, which was impossible for autistic people as people
thought. From a matter of that fact, we can observe many achievements that autistic people can
do. We can infer that autistic students will be successful people if we guide and treat them
correctly in order to let them know their abilities. The more we interact with autistic students, the
more they can feel confident and ready to contribute many useful achievements for our society.
In our society, there are still many schools for autistic students in order to provide them selfcontained classes so that they only learn basic skills in their lives; however, these students should
learn in normal schools so that they can be sociable with many other students. In the future,
autistic students will work with groups that require fundamentally academic skills. When we

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understand how they feel and what they can do, we can recognize that they are our friends that
we can rely on. We have to let them have chances to overcome their challenges so that they will
try as much as they can to become successful people. Their ambitions and success will be
examples for capability of learning so that they should study more in mainstream classes in order
to let them chances become successful people in the future.
While, in our society, there are many people still assume that autistic students can be bad
influences for normal students because autistic students can fight with other normal students. It is
a reason why some people think that schools should separate autistic students from other normal
students in order to have safety zones in school areas. However, people do not know that autistic
students are very sensitive everything around them. They can hit people that touch them or hurt
them. We have to understand how they feel or what they think in order to treat them correctly;
otherwise, we will think they behave strangely among people. In order to solve this problem, we
can go to school to learn how to talk to autistic people so that we can co-operate with them and
help them to recognize their potential. The more we can understand them, the better we can
sympathize with them and realize they are friends that we can have.
Autism is not a disorder; however, it is a thing that makes our humans different. This
difference does not mean that humans are strange among people; however, it is a chance that
humans can have special talents that other people cannot have. In school, autistic students are
normal students that are eager to go to school. They are intelligent and able to achievements
many things in their lives so that people should treat them equally and normally like many other
normal students. Perhaps, they look strange sometimes; however, when we can do something for
them, we can recognize that there are amazing things that they can do. We have to make a call to

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many people around us in order to make them know a message about abilities and talents of
autistic students so that people should not mistreat them and make them feel safe in school.

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Works Cited
Hume, Kara. "Superior Visual Thinking May Be Key to Independence for High Schoolers With
Autism." Superior Visual Thinking May Be Key to Independence for High Schoolers
With Autism. N.p., 12 Mar. 2014. Web. 28 Mar. 2016.
Remy, Charlie, and Priscilla Seaman. "Evolving from disability to diversity: how to better serve
high-functioning autistic students." Reference & User Services Quarterly Fall 2014: 24+.
General OneFile. Web. 7 Apr. 2016.
Wolski, C.A. "Temple Grandin." (n.d.): 82. Web. 28 Mar. 2016.