True friends are the one who understand your feelings, emotions and stand up for you in your difficult times. Here Samarth is giving this example to all Neurotypical people and society. Samarth and Manu are studying in class 7th in an inclusive school. Samarth is a friend of Manu who is Autistic, he can speak orally, but in building comprehension and sentencing he is struggling with communication. So his classmates are bullying him for his speech and they laugh and trouble him very much. Teachers are applying more complexity in communication so Manu is struggling with communication, they failed to approach new techniques for building Communication . Autism is very complex with everlasting fears and anxieties, so sometimes emotions are not expressed in the right way. Samarth is very disappointed by the behavior of his classmates towards Manu. His way of expressing thoughts is so different from neurotypical people but he wants to socialize and mingle with others. Manu is very good in academics, he is a genius boy; he is very good in mathematics. Samarth is very compassionate towards Manu. Time is very terrible, giving the red flag of more distractions in the class. Samarth always asks questions to Manu like what are your dreams? What is your favorite food? Which is your favorite place? What is the task which you love to do? Which is your favorite pet animal ? Autistic mind always distracts with right and left hemispheres of brain processing information, so comprehending language is very critical for autistic people, verbal reasoning is always a challenge for them. When you are talking with autistic person you should talk with them clearly and gradually. So Samarth applied all these techniques to build Manu’s language. When Samarth became Manu’s friend he decided to help him to socialize, so he started googling all about Autism and collected everything about speech and communication and started applying it in day to day activities when he was describing the things Manu was likely to understand and he did not listen to what other students were speaking about his communication. He was literate so he started sharing his feelings through writing notes to his friend Samarth. Being a neurodivergent he always struggled with communication, he is a stereotypical person because of lack of social interaction. Society also failed to understand his communication so he dwelled in his own world. But when he met a good friend Samarth, his autistic mind started following conversations and finally he finds his life
So many questions arise in my mind now, like what made Samarth to be a compassionate person? Why did he choose Manu as his close friend? What was his parents’ reaction when he brought Manu to his house? Samarth was Compassionate towards Manu because he has grown up in a family where everyone is kind towards each other, they know supporting,helping people,their morality is in actions. Samarth is determined by observing his family and Samarth chooses Manu as his good friend because he is very loyal and he never feels jealous of anyone. He was very generous with dedication towards his activities and studies without competing with others. These good qualities of Manu amazed Samarth to be his best friend. Samarth’s parents were very proud of him, they have given freedom of choosing friends to their son, they also wanted to play a small role in helping Manu. They saw him struggling with distractions. Real Inclusion should start from home, when every parent gets aware of how to behave with special needs, then children learn how to be compassionate towards special kids. Inclusion is not only including autistic people in society, Inclusion is giving freedom to autistic people to decide what they want to do in their life..
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