Summer Camp

So out oldest Aspie son left for a week of Boy Scout Camp yesterday. This will be followed by a week at a High Adventure BSA Camp. I LOVE that he is able to participate in these opportunities....but I am always filled with horror at the thought that something will happen and the people around him will not understand that he is "different." Of our Aspie sons, he is the one who is the most acclimated to society. He has made great strides in assimilating to social courtesies. Assimilated....sometimes I think that they are the ones who have it right.....they are their own persons...individual... and WE try to assimilate them to standards that deny our own individuality......like the BORG assimilating JonLuc Picard in Star Trek: Next Generation. Maybe we should "assimilate" to a society that is more understanding of individuality....isn't that we we spend our lives searching for.......ourselves......hummmmmmm.......sorry, I got off track.
Anyway, I know that he will have fun and that he probably will not even realize when a "situation" arises....I just have to trust that his leaders will take care of it and of him.
Meanwhile, our middle Aspie son and our youngest son are enjoying having more space to breathe. We had one of our Family Nights last night. We were playing a game called "Bust a Move Bash" on the Wii. The object of the game is to make 3 bubbles of the same color touch so that they will burst. You have to burst all of the bubbles in a puzzle this same way before time runs out. Now, let me remind you that our middle Aspie son is colored blind....can you imagine the hilarity of this? The discussions about how "that is not silver Dad, that is white.....and white IS a color no matter what my brother says because if white wasn't a color we couldn't have milk or clouds or whipped cream or marshmallows." All of this because our oldest Aspie son always makes a point in telling his brother that "white is not a color....it is the absence of color".....which technically is correct.......etc.
ARGH!!!!
Get the picture.........
But, last night, as the oldest was at camp, the middle son had free range to express his position as pertains to colors....even thought he is color blind! HAHAHAHA! INSANITY!!!
I wonder if there is a preponderance of color blindness with Aspie kids. His incredibly dedicated art teacher at school is convinced that he only sees shades of gray and has come to recognize "colors" by their shading and their name. Wow........
Such individuality.........we shall not assimilate.......