How to deal with disruptive class peer who is on the spectrum

I’m completing my last year in high school, so it’s not as if I have to deal with this much longer. However, this student is enough of a distraction to the point where me and everyone in the class’s learning has been disrupted.

I don’t know for certain if they have some sort of learning disability, but I’m pretty certain they do. (That’s what the teacher was hinting at anyways.) Me and the other students have tried to be as patient as possible, but the student is extremely rude and has no regard for anyone else in the classroom. I understand it’s difficult for them to understand social cues and that’s not their fault, however, I also feel like they shouldn’t be allowed to be rude and distruttive without at the very least being corrected.

They constantly disrupt the teacher and others when talking, cutting people off, talks way too much with the teacher and gets upset when other people call the teacher over for help, has made insensitive comments towards people with gender dysmorphia, insensitive comments towards religious people, has been extremely rude to the teacher when they were trying to help, has made rude remarks when I didn’t understand something and had to ask the teacher for help, beat boxes, growls, makes noise at random times, etc.

I understand it isn’t their fault and I really do feel sorry for them. I can’t imagine how it must be to have a disorder like that (though, someone very close to me is on the spectrum), so I understand he probably isn’t being insensitive and rude on purpose (though he has literally said he likes saying things to piss people off.) We as a class have talked about it with the teacher when they weren’t there, and they said that they understood it was hard to deal with sometimes, but that we were doing a great job at tolerating it and that it wasn’t the students fault.

So yeah, I feel like a giant jerk for feeling annoyed, but the whole class is super fed up at this point. Does anyone have any sort of advice they can give? I would greatly appreciate it.

As a little disclaimer, I had no idea which flair to put this under so my apologies if it’s not the correct one.

Submitted May 04, 2022 at 08:59PM by thatonezeldagirl https://ift.tt/mHuGNqz