Many good days later...

R. is doing so well in school right now...I am so proud of him and his teachers. It gives me hope for next year when he is in middle school (yes, middle school starts in 5th grade in Metro schools). He has his routine down, and is even doing more writing. He copies down his homework each night into his agenda, and is working so hard on his homework. I have my fingers crossed that the rest of this year will continue on this path.

Here is a quote I found online that I want to share:

"Autists are described by others - and by themselves - as aliens among humans. But there's an irony to this, for precisely the opposite is true. They are us, and to understand them is to begin to understand what it means to be human. Think of it: a disability is usually defined in terms of what is missing. But autism is as much about what is abundant as what is missing, an overexpression of the very traits that make our species unique. Other animals are social, but only humans are capable of abstract logic. The autistic outhuman the humans, and we can scarcely recognize the result." --Paul Collins