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Is home schooling in your future?

No, I work in the school setting

When I was in school, I begged my mom to home school me. She worked full time.

Good thing - I also work in the school district my son will be attending next year. I will just work at that district more and scrap the other one. Hopefully we will be in the position where I can homeschool my son but I have all these student loan debts

Look up "semantic pragmatic disorder." I don't fully understand it yet, but I believe it relates to me somehow.

I can't speak in front of a large group. Too much nonverbal stuff to read all at once. I need more time because I need to calculate, while others can just go on instinct. I gave up on that years ago. I can make a brief statement. I can not answer spontaneous questions unless I have already thought about that issue.

"keeping your distance" can be a problem, too. Some people read stuff into that. You can't win.

Are you in a position where tenure is an issue? If so, the school might be afraid of a cut in the school budget. If there's a cut, they will be thinking about staff flexibility and the whole puzzle could end up with you getting the ax. Nothing personal. It's complicated.

Just be yourself and do your best... Relax... Breathe in and out...

Thanks. not tenure

Thank goodness I also work at another district. Hope I don't screw up there.

SPD sounds like me. Very interesting information. I never did like cartoons compared to the average child, though. NOt until I was around 6 years old. I prefered MR. Rogers and the muppets. I didn't like things that weren't real life. I also don't remember pretend playing until 3rd grade. I think I did play with stuffed animals. I am sure I did some pretend play. I often got into trouble because I would just repeat what adults or other kids would say. I would repeat like my child who is on the spectrum repeats (kind of). I would then say to someone else, "so and so said that your baby was ugly." Yep, I did that when I was in 1st grade. I got in a lot of trouble but have no idea why. To me, I was stating what the person had said and I got into trouble for it. I was in 3rd grade, when I yelled "I see some of the eggs that you parents hid." Then I remember hearing a parent say, "Shut up you stupid." I cried like crazy. I was already feeling dumb. There is just so much I can write right now. Bed time