That sounds good. I think I had heard about that before, but hadn't gotten around to it.
Ok, weird night. I took the kids to the autism meeting tonight, teens and young adults, all autism spectrum. I tell H all the itinerary of the kids, so then he emailed me he was going to come. And he did. Awkward. He was sitting down with of course 2 seats saved for the kids. I had a a choice of sitting 20 feet away 3 tables down away from the kids, or across from them. I sat across.
At the start, I found myself smiling a couple times at H when people were telling jokes or said something funny. Old habit I guess. It was funny b/c right away they started us doing introductions and started with H. He said something about well we're homeschooling, but we're working on changing that or something like that with a snotty tone in his voice. Funny b/c every other parent there (like a dozen) were either homeschoolers or had homeschooled part of the years (like middle school or elementary or both). The one mom said that's so great that you homeschool b/c you've been able to avoid the kids that are really cruel and have hurt their son, verbally and physically.
One of the questions he asked was about what autism spectrum and Aspergers is? The lady at the autism center nicely gave him a photocopy about it, and I told her the kids were diagnosed with PDD-NOS. I don't think Mike even knows that....
So awkward but interesting. I'm hoping it might help him if he got involved and got to know about autism and all that, he'd be less of a pita to deal with. But part of me thinks that since obviously they are not very partial to his case, he may just never come back. But I thought it was a great experience. S15 got to go off and hang out with maybe 10 or so other young AS teens, so very cool.
