My son (5) starts grade 1 next week. He was diagnosed as ASD when he was 4. There's a very cute obsession with numbers.
We play a game called "15". We flip 4 cards (no face cards) and you must use all 4 cards but any of +-*/ and make 15. Then we added 24 when it wasn't challenging enough. I can barely land a point on him now (I taught him to play back in April this year).

Yesterday he took checker pieces and showed me triangle numbers. I have no idea who taught him that. He just sort of did it himself. Dad thinks he mentioned the idea once.

I have huge anxiety of him getting bored and then disruptive and kicked out of school. Some parents might be happy about all this math but I see an obsession that I worry about.

I made a huge effort to find other interests so he doesn't just obsess with numbers but have failed. I have so much anxiety over this. Skipping grades isn't a solution to me. He's already a December baby and very socially awkward. School year starts next week and I'm just full of worry.

Just sharing my anxiety here. Thanks for listening.

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At the community pool yesterday, there was a girl there who was on the spectrum. She mostly did her own thing, but at one point took a ball away from my older one (right out of her hands according to my daughter).

My daughter was quite upset by it. as the girl also did a few other less than pleasant things (including almost jumping on me from the diving board... I've never had someone land quite so close to me while swimming before).

When we got home, the litany of complaints started and she said this girl was mean. I tried to explain that this girl had autism and sometimes people aren't as aware about their surroundings or are in the own world. Daddy reminded her about the time she defended her own little brother when someone called her little brother mean. She said "he's not mean, he has autism".

All this is making me worry about how my boy will adapt in a world where he can't read social cues. Even with a little brother with similar issues, my daughter got very upset. I can't expect everyone to be understanding of autistic kids.

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