We have had some wonderful moments in this week, but for the most part, I'd have to say Samuel has been "off." If you're around a spectrum kid for any length of time, you know that some days are better than others.
I suspect he is reacting to what to him feels like a lack of predictability. Samuel has spent plenty of time in the water before, but never in the pool where he started swim lessons this week. (He expects to go play with Thomas the Tank when we go to the gym, not to go to this new pool!) He loves Handwriting Without Tears, but he hasn't seen it enough to understand how it "works." (Why can't we do Mat Man every day?) He loved the abacus, but dang, he's never seen one before!
We've been fiddling around with some of his school stuff all summer, but not enough for him to feel a routine. And life itself is so unpredictable -- Mom said we'd go to Costco and have a hotdog for lunch; now she's telling me that they don't have any. (The gizmo they use for heating them was broken.)
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