I did fine in the private schools I went to, and I actually did fine in third grade, but it wasn't fun. In fact, when I got switched permanently to private school in 4th grade, the first few months I didn't think I was learning. Why? Because I wasn't having an unpleasant time, a condition I associated with learning. Yet, more than 60 yea…
I did fine in the private schools I went to, and I actually did fine in third grade, but it wasn't fun. In fact, when I got switched permanently to private school in 4th grade, the first few months I didn't think I was learning. Why? Because I wasn't having an unpleasant time, a condition I associated with learning. Yet, more than 60 years later, my learning in fourth grade, and after that, has stuck with me.
My mother diagnosed me as being on the spectrum probably when I was 3. I learned about the diagnosis less than five years ago, from the daughter of family friends--Amy--whose mother I suspect was the only person my mother told, and she told Amy. (I asked one of my mother's best friends if she knew about it, and she didn't.)
At the time my mother made the diagnosis, she was a grad student in psych at the University of Washington, and I think the only--or one of a very few experts--in the US was in that department.
I did fine in the private schools I went to, and I actually did fine in third grade, but it wasn't fun. In fact, when I got switched permanently to private school in 4th grade, the first few months I didn't think I was learning. Why? Because I wasn't having an unpleasant time, a condition I associated with learning. Yet, more than 60 years later, my learning in fourth grade, and after that, has stuck with me.
My mother diagnosed me as being on the spectrum probably when I was 3. I learned about the diagnosis less than five years ago, from the daughter of family friends--Amy--whose mother I suspect was the only person my mother told, and she told Amy. (I asked one of my mother's best friends if she knew about it, and she didn't.)
At the time my mother made the diagnosis, she was a grad student in psych at the University of Washington, and I think the only--or one of a very few experts--in the US was in that department.
This story elicited the revelation from Amy.
https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-home-forum/2020/0805/heeding-her-invitation-six-decades-later