Anything you'd like to know about my 10 years working in a mental hospital?

It was a state mental hospital. It had a civil commitment section (homeless people brought in by police, indigent mental patients whose families couldn't care for them) and it had a forensic section (people serving prison terms considered mentally ill or not guilty by reason of insanity). I worked as a teacher, first adolescents for 5 years, then adults for 5 years. I have been retired for 4 years.

I'm asking this because I'm writing my memoirs of my career to be given to my friends and wondered what, if anything, people might want to know about it.

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greenmountaingal · 70-79, F

Since most autistic patients are treated outside hospitals nowadays, I did not have any autistic students. Some severely autistic patients were in the hospital but were rarely able to attend school; I did notice that some of them had savant abilities. Psychiatrists have told me that they have dealt with gifted autistic people and some autistic people are highly intelligent, talented people.