It’s been an interesting couple of weeks, as our son, with his dad’s help, has figured out a way to use public transportation part of the way to community college, and has continued to try to improve his reading skills in preparation for his first classes.\u00a0\u00a0 They’ve walked around on the campus; they got his student ID and his bus card and so on and so forth.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
He came back from one of these trips gleefully announcing that he loved bus trips; his father’s face showed a lot less enthusiasm.\u00a0\u00a0 R- is being a trooper about this, while I sit home and write (which is my job, but still.)<\/p>\n
Tomorrow is the big day.\u00a0\u00a0 R- is going with him for the whole day (not into the classes, but on the buses to the campus, walking with him to the classes, etc.)\u00a0 in case the sensory overload scrambles his navigation, making sure he finds the little snackroom thing, making sure he gets the computerized learning passwords he needs written down, etc.<\/p>\n
Is the maternal parent nervous?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0\u00a0 If I didn’t have writing deadlines I have to meet, which require hours spent at the computer tomorrow,\u00a0 I’d want to be the one trailing along behind the long-tall-Texan that is our son.\u00a0\u00a0 Then at least I’d know<\/em>–I wouldn’t have to wait all day to find out.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (R- doesn’t like cellphones and won’t take mine… they may not get home until after 7 pm.)<\/p>\n And yet…this is the best thing we can think of to do at this time, where we are, with the resources we have.\u00a0 And he wants to go.\u00a0 And that is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been an interesting couple of weeks, as our son, with his dad’s help, has figured out a way to use public transportation part of the way to community college, and has continued to try to improve his reading skills in preparation for his first classes.\u00a0\u00a0 They’ve walked around on the campus; they got his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,12,26],"tags":[3,40,50],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-life-on-the-spectrum","category-parenting","tag-autism","tag-college","tag-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}