Men are respected based on their stature...and that is it

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I admit to taking advanatge of the children's prices for admission - I can't help it if they don't ask my age and just assume I'm 8-12 years younger, can I?


This didn't happen to me but there was a crazy gas station attendent not far from where I grew up. Once a short lady got out and began pumping her own gas. There were several announcements that children weren't allowed to pump gas, and then the lady her pump shut off - she was the only one in the car. You would think driving herself to the pump would prove she was old enough to pump gas.

That attendent was insane. I kept my gas money in the glove box, pulled up opened my glove box and hadn't even reached my money when she began the announcement that I needed to pull up if I wasn't going to pump gas. Umm I'd been there only a few seconds and most of the other pumps were empty

That's funny, but then again, it probably wasn't so funny to you.

I think the similarities here are that most Aspies are not, um, jocks, and generally hated PE in school. Can't say I blame them, I hated it, too.

My Aspie son tried a few sports, and hated them all -- even martial arts because the Sensei was a total jerk, ex-marine type who would make him do pushups every time he got something wrong (which was quite frequently).

In high school I made him go out for football. Yes, football. He hated it, he hated me, he hated life -- until they won their first game. That was three years ago, and he's still playing on his own, now on Varsity, and while he doesn't LOVE it, he does love the exercise he gets, he loves being on a team where he makes a difference (he's 6'2"), and he LOVES being the smartest kid on the team!

The ironic part? There are two other Aspies on the team, and a kid with NLD. He would have NEVER met these kids had he not been on the team.

I know this is not the answer for most folks -- but it was right for him. He now tells me that when I make him do something tough (very rarely) he knows that it's the right thing!

My stature poses a problem when teaching... At 6'4", broad proportions and an expansive reach, I can easily intimidate a classroom of people if I do not pay strict attention to proximity and my gesticulation whilst speaking, and my volume/tone of voice (being a bass, it seems to have more of a negative effect unless modulated carefully).


M.