I’m so proud of him! He has characteristics of ADHD & autism, but he’s done really well in school, not to mention working at McDonald’s the past year. He got 2 awards for maintaining over a 4.0 GPA all four years in high school since he took advanced placement courses.
He’s going away for school in September, and I will be an emotional wreck I’m sure. It will be a huge learning and growing experience for him, and he needs it. But I will miss my baby since I’ve been with him every step of the way since he was born over 18 years ago. ❤️
Wow, such an awesome record. And having a job, too!
I hope he has fun in college and learns some awesome knowledge and skills.
----- I was so bored the other day so started reading my high school calculus textbook. My perspective and background are so different now.
I can see why they chose to present it as they did, because I know a lot of what comes next and even the higher math that underpins it. For example, one theorem was left unproven. But when I got to college I took a course where it was proven.
Yet it is still hard. Especially when I look at the exercises at the end of each chapter, specifically, the last few of those on the list for the chapter.
I am also watching a Stanford lecture on YouTube about general relativity. The last one discussed black holes!
I swear sometimes thinking about math keeps me up half the night.
I sometimes think of math while falling asleep. It is weird, since I will try to visualize and work on an equation in my head, yet this gets hard as I move in and out of wakefulness. If I do nod off for a second there is a gap in my memory and I forget what I was working on that moment. But often not enough of a gap to forget what I had been doing, in general. Yet I can only resume it from a point in the past.
:) that was intended to be semi-humorous ... and knowledge a wish to go with them, even if just to sit at a distance and watch.
For a while it was called the "hover generation", meaning that parents were hovering over children like helicopters, ready to advise and protect their children as they went through college. Has that generation come ... and gone?
That's great. I have Asperger's and I managed to get a postgraduate degree, 26-year government career to senior management level, get married, have kids, own my home, travel the world, and have many lovers. I still revel in my extreme differences.
@Wol62 I’ve been teaching my kids to be kind to others since they were toddlers, as well as having good morals & values. Now he’ll be on his own, so I hope he can continue to grow & learn from what we’ve taught him.
Congrats to you as the mother and him as the graduate. It was never easy for my mother to let her boys go off into the world. She keeps in touch often though.
@RedBaron I don’t want to say, but and he will be at a college that’s about an hour and a half from us, so at least he’s still close enough to get to if we really need to get to him quickly.
