so, today there was another straight faced meeting about r.'s asperger's diagnosis. he is shortly to meet with an educational psychologist (not my stress, but i like it, so it stays) and a speech and language therapist. it seems what i was happy to think of as an asperger's 'haze'- like donald trump's hair- is to be made something more tangible. more of a hat, perhaps- an asperger's fedora seems appropriate. we, the adults present, talked earnestly and at length about the validity and ultimate goals of this process. we weighed up the pros and cons of what i am choosing to think of as 'preemptive labelling' (better 'aspergic' than 'lazy', or 'stupid'...*narrows eyes*). we reviewed what specifically in the reception year rudy might need support with. we got to the point where we were repeating ourselves and eachother, justifying the process and each of our roles within it. as per.
"i know, roight, guys, but check out my new chucks?" said the little boy in question, in his startlingly sweet bristol burr, suddenly toes-a-posing in the physical epicentre of our concentration.
ah, levity.
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"i know, roight, guys, but check out my new chucks?" said the little boy in question, in his startlingly sweet bristol burr, suddenly toes-a-posing in the physical epicentre of our concentration.
ah, levity.
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As for haze, I dunno. The sharper I try to bring it into focus, the more I stare, the fuzzier it gets...
ReplyDeletevery true.
ReplyDeleteto refer to asperger's as a clearly defined entity unto itself is folly, it's not chicken pox, say. earlier, however, i thought the professionals were happy to deal with rudy as asperg-ish. now it seems that they're not. and yet, everything is still a shade of grey.
i should have gone with fog- like joe biden's weave- perhaps.
Oh dear god. Pierce my heart why not.
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