New Student Seminar class for someone on AS

[Guest guest]

: The best and brightest among us collaborate and use others to bounce ideas off of and gain new perspectives and direction.  Folks with AS are no different.  We all need help or assurance we are on the right path or guidance on where the resources are to make the choice on what path to take in life. I have always been at odds with the “sink or swim†method often touted for folks with autism when they become of legal age.  I see the merits and logic, but if it is a parent’s job to prepare their children for adulthood and some with autism are developmentally delayed, it just seems that some parents need to extend or modify the boundaries.  We do this for kids without autism.  Social norms have shifted.  When you and I were growing up they pushed us out of the nest at 18.  Not true anymore as that age has been extended out.  Not legally, but more and more kids are staying at home longer or forced back into the nest due to economics or other factors. Just me. Let's put a slightly different twist on this discussion.Yes, I emphasized the personal responsibility and legal separations involved when adults act as their own advocates rather than having others chase after them (and perhaps even coddle). But wait...there's more. <g> ….