No 504 or IEP yet. He was able to coast through for quite a few years before it all caught up with him. When we looked into it before we got the old “we’re not obligated to help students reach their potential” line.
Now that he has an ASD diagnosis, the school is suddenly asking ME when we can schedule a meeting to look into a 504 or IEP - even though the suggestions his counselor has made so far are all to help with the anxiety piece which was diagnosed in middle school. I figured I’d give it the weekend before responding so I could hopefully come at this with more of a “teamwork” attitude instead of the resentful “sure… but where has this help been the last six years?” that wells up in me.
Was the theater class a hard sell? He’s so horrified by having even a figurative spotlight on him that a literal one seemed out of the question.
He’s looking at either computer science or engineering. At schools that offered an Undeclared engineering option, that’s what he applied to, but if forced to pick, he said mechanical. Currently accepted at Clarkson, Western New England, and Alfred. Also applied to Champlain, WPI, and RIT.
Trying to pick a school is going to be hard, and trying decide on a field is hard, so he told different schools different things, figuring that it would add one more layer of difference between one school and the next.