M- is now in his sixth week of living on his own in an apartment in the city.\u00a0\u00a0 I haven’t been to his apartment since week four;\u00a0 R- has picked him up on Friday to come\u00a0 up here for Friday night through Sunday morning, then R- takes him to church, and then ice-skating.\u00a0\u00a0 (The Sunday bus schedule makes it impossible for him to navigate apartment to church, or even count on a bus home from ice-skating.)\u00a0 Last week, M- managed both legs of the afterschool trip to the ice rink and then home to his apartment.<\/p>\n
Last week, M- told us he’d made a 90 on a test (whoopee!)\u00a0 and we heard from people at church that he’s been telling them about his apartment.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The church office called this week and asked for his new address; I suggested that he email them with it instead of doing it myself.\u00a0\u00a0 So I sent him the church email address, and he emailed in his address.\u00a0 Today it was his social worker in this county…I did the same, and he emailed me when he’d done it.<\/p>\n
This week also, storms knocked the power out to his apartment for several hours (he told me by email afterwards)…but he was fine, though (from the tone of the email) annoyed.\u00a0\u00a0 I remember the years when he panicked when the power went off…and how, finally, he began to understand that power goes off…and comes back on.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now it’s not a terror anymore, or even an “adventure”…just the kind of annoyance most of\u00a0 us think it is.<\/p>\n
His emails are shorter and farther apart…and I’m delighted, though I’d like more communication (what mother wouldn’t?) especially about grades.\u00a0 But his independence is more important than my comfort level with uncertainty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
M- is now in his sixth week of living on his own in an apartment in the city.\u00a0\u00a0 I haven’t been to his apartment since week four;\u00a0 R- has picked him up on Friday to come\u00a0 up here for Friday night through Sunday morning, then R- takes him to church, and then ice-skating.\u00a0\u00a0 (The Sunday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,12,26],"tags":[3,11,40,13,43,22],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-education","category-life-on-the-spectrum","category-parenting","tag-autism","tag-bright-side","tag-college","tag-communication","tag-independence","tag-progress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"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=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}