Nice picture glen! I must have missed it. I do check that thread every now and then for new faces.
Abi, I wish I'd known more about Autism when I first started out. We've talked before about the fact that what I've learned I learned from kids I've worked with, not books or lectures. I'm not actually a teacher but a Speech Pathology Assistant in the public schools, but I know what you mean. It kills me that even today teachers don't always "get it". I have my days too when I just can't seem to hold on to the fact that my Autistic students aren't wrong for thinking or acting the way they do. They're just being them. When I can't get my planned activity to jive with their particular mindset in that moment it gets frustrating. I'm trying to be better about adapting as I go.
I hope that the Autism programs out there are doing a better job than what you endured!
As I consider going all the way for my certification I'm thinking more and more about getting involved in an Autism program eventually.
And thank you, I have had a very nice start to my weekend. I sat in a cozy local yarn shop listening to the first Miss Marple mystery on cd with a bunch of women, two of whom I know and the rest I don't. I worked on my knitted vest which is a warm chestnut brown tweed with flecks of orange, purple and lime green in it. It has a v neck and a fat cable down the front. It's nearly tunic length, the largest thing I've knit to date. I'm almost to the armholes on the back.
Oh, I wore my hand knit socks to school the other day. I had on long pants and Dansko shoes so they didn't really show much. But I was walking one of my special ed students back to her third grade classroom and she spotted them somehow. She started laughing and pointing and actually said, "You have stupid socks on!"
It's part of her personality to be obnoxious like that but man, did that bug me. Not that I'm worried what she thinks of my socks. I love them and don't care. But I just wanted to
you know. I got over it. I vowed to wear them only on days I work with her to bug her. I plan to knit more socks so she can be bugged by those. Because I'm mature like that.
Would love to stop by sometime glen. We have some fencing to put up. The goats discovered they no longer sink into the snow. It's crusted over and they've found a few spots where they can walk right over! We discovered this as the two "saanerhaslis" went on walk about the other day. Sigh. It's always something. This winter is getting OLD.
To you and that family!
