Siobhan Roseno

she/her

When I Grow Older

“I’m not like the other teachers.”

While writing my thesis, I recorded a number of negative experiences shared by other neurodivergent teachers across Ireland. However, during my teaching placement, I experienced a world very different from theirs. The ways in which we think, perceive, and interpret the world around us may differ from our peers, but is that necessarily a bad thing?

When I Grow Older explores the journey from student to teacher through a neurodivergent lens, documenting details across the course of a decade through illustrative journals. The work acts as an ode to teaching and learning, and is dedicated to the teachers who helped shape who I am today.

Survival guide.

Survival guide.

Book

Book

Tapestry

Tapestry

Teaching Placements

St. Seton’s Secondary School, Kylemore, Dublin 10

Clogher Road Community College, Crumlin, Dublin 12

Kingswood Community College, Kingswood, Dublin 24