The Gallery – A Memory

(C) 2010 And Then All I Thought About Was You

I used to work in an Autistic school!

I worked in one classroom for a year or so, and the children in that class could bite. One of the children was going through a rough patch, he would get very distressed. He would hurt himself and try and hurt whoever was in his way as well.

One day it all kicked off, and I was working with him one on one at the time. I could see that he was getting stressed, and nothing was calming him down. He lunged from his chair and went to hit himself I put my leg out to protect his head, and this was the bite that I received!

Yes really it was a bite from a little boy, if I am right he was about 8/9 years old at the time.

I was in agony. I remember the next couple of hours, my leg just felt worse and worse. By the end of the day I could not walk, driving home was difficult.

However the next day was agony. I had to call in sick, I could barely move my leg. I went to the doctor and was asked whether I had been bitten by a HORSE! When I told the doctor what had happened, they just looked at me. The bite had torn the muscles in my leg. I was in agony for weeks, and even now 5 years on I still get a lot of pain in my leg.

This is a memory that I will always have of a certain lad, and my time of teaching him.

This post was done for The Gallery over at Sticky Fingers, go over and take a look at the other posts as they are all great!

*P.S. I forgave him very quickly and still have a great fondness for the young man that did this to my leg!