Fenn wrote:
When my son was in college we (his parents) had to make a fast rule: every class he took he had to get contact information for three fellow students. Easy to do with Autism? No. Very hard. But very necessary. These three contacts could be asked about homework projects, invitations to whiteboard study sessions. Contacted about group projects. Very difficult to get over the hump. Many material benefits in the long run. Worth the effort.
That is a good idea!
I enjoyed my classes and had a good time in college, after having a bad time in high school. No more bullies in college, and I got to go home early almost every day. I sat on the front row of every class & took a lot of notes, whether they were necessary or not, to show that I was paying attention and to keep myself awake and listening. I studied a lot and the extreme lack of socialization paid off because there were no distractions to studying.
Unfortunately the degrees were not considered of high value due to the small christian college I went to. It was hard to get that first job out of college. I had to move 500 miles away from home for a very demanding, poorly paid programming "boot camp" of 9-10 hour days coding in an obscure assembler language, which was then and certainly is now of little or no use in the marketplace.
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