TheInfamousArgyle wrote:
Good to be out of high school. Because I have AS, everyone is SO worried about me. I'm living on campus at a local college. Imagine if I would have been accepted to Yale, how nervous my folks would be! Even my teachers and principal were uneasy about my applying to faraway schools. They are wanting me to date a bunch of people and go to parties and whatnot. I have no idea if this concern is because I exude naivete from every pore, or if it's just natural.
There are a lot of crows around here. They like to nest in the 40 foot tall pine trees. A few weeks after the eggs hatch, when the babies are fledglings, the parents push them out of the nest. Right over the edge. They fly or the die. The nest, it turns out, is actually a dangerous place for the birds. The parents constantly have to guard the babies from predators such as squirrels or other birds. They push them out of the nest because if they stayed in the nest they would all die.
It's unfortunate that many of the parents of those with AS of your generation are afraid to push their kids with AS out of the nest, so to speak. People with AS of my generation didn't have to deal with that over protectiveness and parents who doubted us because they really misunderstand what AS is, and most of us did ok.
Don't buy into other's perceptions that you will never be able to take care of yourself. That is a perception they have brought upon you and you don't need it.
Go to whichever school you want, wherever you want and work at being a little less naive.
31 May 2011, 10:36 pm
