Our Aspergers Teenage Boy

Yesterday, after finding excuses for the better part of year, Tommy mustered the nerve to take his test to get his learner’s permit for driving. He passed with 100%! The test administrator said in the 5 years she had worked at the DMV, she could recount only one other teenager who passed without missing a single question. Tommy’s head swelled so big I did not think he’d fit back in the car!

Tommy is thrilled with his accomplishment. As a parent who has lived through having your child child told he’d never read, to being told to lock him away for the sake of the other children, and similar negative outlooks on his fate, this step toward adulthood and independence is wonderful! Coupled with the fact that he will walk the graduation stage with a regular education diploma in May 2008 and that he not longer stands out as different, I have high hopes for Tommy’s future.

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