So tonight, I ventured to my Alma Mater to attend my eldest Aspie son's first High School Open House. Moving between classes, I was completely thrown into a frenzy of forgotten friendships, lost loves, and the humors of high school life. But quickly, I returned to the issue at hand....my son. You never know what someone might say about your Aspie child.....or if they will be open to what Aspie kids are.....or if they already have preconceived ideas about Aspie kids. So it was with great trepidation that I walked the halls in between each 10 minute class snapshot. What will this teacher say? How will he/she view my son? Will they see his gifts as well as his faults? Do they know what it is like? No they don't so stop even thinking about it.
Some really positive things happened tonight: teachers commented about his intelligence, his talent, his unquenchable thirst as pertains to reading, his heart, his innocence, his caring, his manners (What? You mean he really DOES remember his manners away from me?) and a parent of another freshman commenting on how her son had become friends with my son. FRIENDS!!! Can you believe it???
There were some other things that happened that I fully expected: he needs organizational skills, he lacks self motivation, he needs to remember his homework, he needs to work on staying focused....all of those things (although they were already listed in his Service Plan) I fully expected. But NOTHING prepared me for his Latin teacher announcing to the CLASS OF PARENTS that she gave him bonus points for citing Julius Caesar when he insulted her! WHAT!!!!! The funny thing is that he has NO MEMORY of this and probably NEVER intended to insult her!!! Great!!! Now how do you win over THAT teacher's understanding? I even remember the conversation about a week ago when he told me he won bonus points in Latin for knowing that Caesar was stabbed in the back. I think there may be some miscommunication here......
So where do I go from here?
I am feeling a bit like Caesar myself right now......
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