Graduation pictures
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| Sat, 05-26-2007 - 10:28pm |
This chapter of his book is closed, only memories left. The cake is a symbol of this. I chose to have two pictures one of him as a newborn and the other one of his prom pictures (he actually chose the prom picture but didn't know about the newborn picture) but my thought is this chapter of his life is over. From newborn to graduating high school. College is next and I am thrilled he is so dedicated to going to college. I just realized if he graduation...no make that WHEN he graduates college, he will be the first one of my mother's grandchildren to do that. I am actually the first and only one of her children that got a Bachelor's degree. Jimmy has two older cousins, my sister's children and they didn't go to college.
Anyway enough rambling, here is the graduation pictures. Enjoy!
http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g247/suzyqe1/Jimmy%20graduation/
Linda

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PAULA!!!!!!! I have missed you gal. You mean so much to me, you do not realize the inspiration you and Renee and Candes have been to me.
What a way to start a Sunday morning huh? A sappy message from a mama. LOL
I'm glad others see the cake idea good too. I was wondering if it was weird because I haven't seen it before but I did it anyway.
Thanks for the nice words too friend!
Amy you are very welcome. I am glad to be able to post positive things. :-) Normally our life is uneventful. I guess I could post the emails he sent to his teacher this year. He was called into the principle's office and he told me but the principle didn't get a hold of me- I felt he should have contacted me. I asked if he got in trouble and he said no the principal was going to help him. Now my son is normally like his father (not his mother) and is quiet and well mannered but when he gets fired up I guess he takes after his mother and since he can communicate much better in writing he chose that direction instead of verbally where he would have stuttered and probably became very emotional. I think I will show them....(running off to outlook to hunt them down)...here they are. Now this shows how stressed he was getting and it was a cue to for me to step in and intervene. I am glad one of his other teachers emailed me this. I did speak to the principle and he actually laughed and said my son had a point and that the teacher should also give all the tools (something about needing a tape recorder that son didn't tell us he needed).
On to the emails that was sent April 24th:
I am tired of you keep making projects due in one week or less! I have a job, and I work 5 days a week, sometimes 6. I will stop doing the projects and big assignments because they are a waste of MY TIME and they're not worth the credits!
Oh, and for YOUR INFORMATION, I DO HAVE OTHER CLASSES!!!!!
I am getting Fs on assignments because I am trying to do those stupid projects of yours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have a nice day.
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Sincerely,
(signed his name)
Fifteen points are not worth F****** CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you made the projects a hundred points, MAYBE, they will be worth doing. But anything below 100 is not worth dog crap.
Have a nice day.
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Sincerely,
(signed his name)
Nice huh?
Where are you planning on moving? I had DH read your post and he said we can make it to Quincy nearly any weekend. It is hard during the week with both of us working. I am planning on taking vacation in June sometime though. I don't know my way around Quincy like DH does though. I know we won't make it to Peoria though :-( What do you do on weekends and how far are you from Quincy?
You're welcome! :-)
Oh gee recapping our story. Well we always knew son wasn't like the others, he had little quirks and didn't talk until late (others said I babied him too much). In preschool he got involved with AEA and stayed with AEA until he graduated. Now with college he will be involved with Vocational Rehabilitation and as long as he keeps like a 2.0 (he has never been below a 3.0) they will pay 50% of his tuition and will also help him move after he graduates college. It sounds so wonderful anyway back to the recapping:
In Elementary school he was diagnosed with ADD/ADHD and was medicated (bad decision on our part) teachers also labeled him as strange (okay one teacher, his 5th grade teacher and she also said if they were to put him in a closet he wouldn't knock to get out--she was so strange and I still can't stand her) anyway he really didn't get diagnosed with PDD/NOS until he was 13, I know it was late in life really but we had him evaluated and all but nobody saw it until 13 years old. He is mild and we are very thankful for that. After his diagnosis I found this board for support. I had no idea what it was so of course I went searching on the net. Gave a copy of his evaluation to the school and AEA and put in lots of interventions on his IEP. I a lot is trial and error. Like we never thought about speeches and he stutters so I spoke to his high school teachers and they were very good to work with and either took his name out of the bowl or let him come in after class and give the speech to the teacher which son was fine with that. The Internet has been a life saver with this educational process.
There was a lot of times that son said he thought he did things because of his autism. I wouldn't let him use it as a crutch and at times I thought I expected to much of him and so did my DH. I don't mean to toot my own horn here because son is a great kid and all but I think that things would have been a lot different if I didn't push him and son actually says the same thing now. I know growing up he thought I was too strict and hard on him but I think he sees that it was for the best. I work with at risk kids and it scared me thinking my kids could be one of those kids and I was hard on the kids. I say "I" because hubby just kind of follows my lead....LOL I know it sounds bad but I am the one who enforces rules. Just remember empty threats do not work (I don't use them and hubby realized they don't work) and follow through and be consistent. Always remind your children you do what you do because you care and love them. I told son if I didn't love him so much I wouldn't care what he did and what kind of trouble he was in. I think he finally sees this. I worried about our relationship for a while because he was rebelling and I was standing my ground on what I strongly believed in and I worried our relationship was being hurt but now I see we are close and just today I got two hugs from him and he will be 19 on Tuesday. :-) We tell one another daily (even several times a day) that we love one another.
I hope I answered your question and didn't just rattle off. Please let me know if you need me to clarify.
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