School Starting - Sending Good Thougths to All!

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Hi all,

Thought I would make a post to wish all the Wrong Planet families the best of luck with this upcoming school year. Whether your child is headed off the preschool, elementary, middle, high school or college - may their teachers be kind and supportive, their peers friendly, and the year successful! I know the start of school can be a time of anxiety and change - so sending good thoughts to everyone.

My daughter is starting high school tomorrow in a new state (we moved during the summer)! She is nervous, but enthusiastic too. Hope it lasts!

Where is your child going to school, are they excited?

Take care everyone!

Thank you for the well wishes. May your daughter experience a wonderful fulfilling and meaningful experience at her new school this year.

My son has started already but is on a temporary hiatus due to percutaneous(sp?) achilles tendon lengthening surgery. He's 8 years old and in the 3rd grade. He is in his 2nd school year so gratefully his team is at the very least familiar with him. He is excited about school; here's to hoping he actually learns something this year be it academic, social, behavioral, or otherwise. We're located in Northern CA.

Good luck flowermom, my daughter is starting high school too (aged 11 here in Britain). She is feeling positive and the school knows of her condition and is being supportive.
Sending all happy thoughts to you too.

Thanks,

I'm actually a bit anxious. My son is 11, nonverbal, partly incontinent with anxiety/frustration-based aggression. Since he was in kindergarten he was in a wonderfully supportive private school for children with behavioral issues that weren't necessarily all related to autism but he has aged out and will be starting at an entirely different school in about a week. He's also intellectually disabled so he doesn't seem to understand and continually asks for classmates and teachers at his former school by name as well as asking when the bus will be coming to get him.

We're also switching providers for med management (which was part of his school's services) and even though we've maintained the same dosage for the past several years, he's still grown significantly and his aggression has become less manageable. We have an eval with a new clinic but I'm afraid that all these changes coming at once are going to be too much for him to deal with and that we'll have to have him admitted into an inpatient facility until he's stabilized. We went through that once already (when he was 7) and it was traumatic for all of us.

My son will be starting college in a few weeks, and moving into the dorm - 400 miles away from us! Oh my, I THINK he is ready, but this is a BIG change, and I am so nervous!

On the flip side, however, is knowing just how far he has come. So much is behind us.

He was actually thinking he would skip registering with the disability office since things have been smooth for so long, but I've gotten him to change his mind on that; one should never turn down an available resource.

I go into senior year tomorrow. And it's not off to a great start. My best friend has seemed to cut off communication with me and summer break was the worst in 6 years. It's putting a scar on it already. Hopefully I can hang in there and try the best I can. Graduation is in June 2016, and I hope to make up this summer break next year. Maybe I can save for a road trip, or something else that is fun...

Good luck JustinsDad! If you've had one good school experience then you are in a good place for another. You never know, maybe the new school will be just as happy for you as the old one.
And good luck to you too WAautisticguy. I am non-diagnosed with a diagnosed daughter. I hated my awful elitist bitchfest of a school with a passion, so the best I can say to you is.... ONLY ONE MORE YEAR! Just focus on those exams and thank God real life begins soon!