We arrive at the airport viewing spot so that Red can take video of the airplanes as they land and take off. He has been playing Flight Simulator X and has become fascinated with airplanes. He incorporates his two favorite loves, video and airplanes on this excursion. He gets out of the car. I notice a boy standing there also observing. He has a camera in one hand and a radio of some sort in the other hand. I am watching this scene from the coolness of the air-conditioned car. Blue is also on the scene. He has no problem walking up and introducing himself and his brother.
It doesn't take long for Blue to get to the fact that he has Aspergers. It goes something like this: "Hi my name is Blue. Do you know about Aspergers? Well...I have it." Before long, all of the boys are talking incessantly. This is unusual for Red who does not typically converse this much with someone he just met. Apparently, they have a lot in common. The young man appears to be somewhere between Blue and Red's age.
My husband arrives...we have been waiting for his plane to come in. We get out of the car and go over to meet the young man. My husband approaches the van that is parked across the way and introduces himself to the young man's mother. (This is where Blue gets it from.)
His mother is gracious. We have a wonderful conversation. Apparently, the young man is 14 years old and also has Aspergers! Of course we have a lot in common raising boys on the spectrum. What are the chances of this happening? Meeting someone who has the same interest/fixation, around the same age and also has Aspergers. We exchange e-mail and contact information. Of course I give her information about the blog. It also turns out that they live about 25 minutes away from where we live. We vow to get the boys together again at some point. This was about 2 or so months ago.
School ended and Red is out of his mind with boredom. I reach out to his mom again via e-mail. She calls to say, they have been thinking of us too. Of course our lives have been out-of-control with the end of school year activity, etc.
Yesterday, the boys finally have a chance to hang out together. They pick Red up from our house, go have lunch, and spend the day at their house. They play Flight Simulator, talk and exchange information about airplanes for hours on end. I don't think their was a lull in conversation all day. They go swimming, play ball with their dogs and have dinner together.
I think I may be more excited than Red about this budding, new friendship! What a wonderful family that we were blessed to meet. He's 15 years old and yes...Mommy is still making play-dates for him. I am so thankful for this family that we met on that day a few months ago. I really think that was God at work...a prayer answered.
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It doesn't take long for Blue to get to the fact that he has Aspergers. It goes something like this: "Hi my name is Blue. Do you know about Aspergers? Well...I have it." Before long, all of the boys are talking incessantly. This is unusual for Red who does not typically converse this much with someone he just met. Apparently, they have a lot in common. The young man appears to be somewhere between Blue and Red's age.
My husband arrives...we have been waiting for his plane to come in. We get out of the car and go over to meet the young man. My husband approaches the van that is parked across the way and introduces himself to the young man's mother. (This is where Blue gets it from.)
His mother is gracious. We have a wonderful conversation. Apparently, the young man is 14 years old and also has Aspergers! Of course we have a lot in common raising boys on the spectrum. What are the chances of this happening? Meeting someone who has the same interest/fixation, around the same age and also has Aspergers. We exchange e-mail and contact information. Of course I give her information about the blog. It also turns out that they live about 25 minutes away from where we live. We vow to get the boys together again at some point. This was about 2 or so months ago.
School ended and Red is out of his mind with boredom. I reach out to his mom again via e-mail. She calls to say, they have been thinking of us too. Of course our lives have been out-of-control with the end of school year activity, etc.
Yesterday, the boys finally have a chance to hang out together. They pick Red up from our house, go have lunch, and spend the day at their house. They play Flight Simulator, talk and exchange information about airplanes for hours on end. I don't think their was a lull in conversation all day. They go swimming, play ball with their dogs and have dinner together.
I think I may be more excited than Red about this budding, new friendship! What a wonderful family that we were blessed to meet. He's 15 years old and yes...Mommy is still making play-dates for him. I am so thankful for this family that we met on that day a few months ago. I really think that was God at work...a prayer answered.
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Adelaide Dupont · 285 weeks ago
And for those of us who knew and appreciated these points in high school to a greater or lesser extent - always good to have a refresher and feel them through the current and future generations who we survived to be able to see.
I especially appreciated points 5, 7 and 10.
And young women not settling or settling down yet is a good thing.
"It's never too late to live our dreams" - but it may be too early for some of them!
And 8 of course.
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Maira L. Coral · 216 weeks ago
I was looking for information for my Multi-Genre Disability Research Project from my Early Childhood Special Education class on the web, when suddenly I came across your blog. I started reading this out of curiosity and I want to tell you that as you said yourself, you will not be Amanda Gorman, but you managed to make me shed some tears, perhaps because I felt totally identified with your words, especially in the part that you speak of your son. My son also has Asperger's syndrome, he is 19 years old and he is in the second semester of College. Also like yours, he takes classes from home, likewise my eldest daughter is also taking college classes from her room. At the same time, that I work as a preschool teacher from my kitchen through a computer, my husband sleeps in the room during the day because he works at night. Also in the afternoons I myself take virtual school classes. I am a 51-year-old Latin woman who began to learn the English language as adult, so maybe you find some deficiencies in my writing, however, I was very moved by how proud you express yourself about your son. Referent your mother, I liked the humorous tone that you give when your talk about her, so I did not want to miss this opportunity and stopped my assignments for a moment to let you know that your words do make a difference, since they reach the heart of at least those who have opportunity to read you. I want confess you that is the most long I have written to someone I don't know, because your words inspired me, thank you...
Gavin Bollard · 209 weeks ago
Thanks for this post. I've been very distracted of late and so this was how I found out about our friend Kate. Kate's struggles were very real but they were so constant and so wide-ranging that it was difficult for people around her to address them. I think it's going to take a while longer for me to process all this.
I learned so much from Kate because she was always quick to point out the many injustices in the world. In her glory days, she was very much a crusader and she cared for everyone. Over the years, as her situation took its toll, I came to realise that it was the fact that she couldn't be put in a single specific category, that made the system fail her. She needed help that they weren't set up to provide.
She needed more care and she needed to be less alone. I'm so sorry that this has happened.
For a long while we were corresponding almost every day but a couple of months ago, I realised that she had become so stressed that nearly every interaction I had with her was starting to trigger her. I backed away to give her a bit more space. She only had a little time that she could stand to be online and there were too many things that she wanted to do in that time. I thought that by taking a step back, she could reach out to more people who might be geographically closer and able to assist.
Kate was a beautiful soul and she will be sorely missed by all of us.
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Spoil your cat · 122 weeks ago
Many of these living arrangement aren't good, and many of the people who run those places really don't have the residents' best interest at heart. Those places are like old age homes and foster homes, where you sometimes hear horror stories. They're hard to trust. But then there are good ones, of course.
The best thing for an autistic adult is either to go on living at home or working and renting an apartment and living independently, but that isn't always an option.
Duncan · 112 weeks ago