School Speaker…?

Recently, on my podcast I published an episode where I spoke with Adam who works at an Autism school in the UK. After our podcast episode, we continued to speak and he was wondering if I would talk to the other teachers at the school about my experiences. I said yes, happily, and today on July 8, 2021 we had a meeting. I told them what they wanted to know via the questions Adam had sent me, and then some. They all seemed to enjoy it though and shared their thoughts on what I told them it was like for me personally to be Autistic.

One of the teachers asked me what I’d like to do career wise, and I told her about wanting to find a way to change the school policies here in the US to appropriately comply with the ADA laws (section 504 specifically) but said that I didn’t know how to do that. She told me that I’d be great at being a speaker — talking to the teacher’s on how they could help their students learn and understand kids a bit better.

I am terrified of public speaking, but Zoom made it easy to talk to the 5 adults on the other side of the world and her feedback made me really happy. It’s something that I actually would love to do. I really don’t think it’d pay the bills, so I’d probably have to make sure I keep a part time job with flexible hours handy, but just imagine how much I could actually change the way teachers see, interact and teach their students.

I don’t really know where to start or what to do, or how any of this would work, but I did look it up and I found this article. Looks like I’ve got some more research to do ahead of me. I really hope this is something I can do. Fingers crossed!

My responses to the questions Adam sent me is (are? I think it’s is) linked here.