A Good Day

Had a lovely day today with the boy.

He has an assignment due in for his English course and he needs to produce a leaflet to promote a cause. He has chosen to write about our high street which is rather dire. Anyway, he became so involved in his research about it that we were late leaving for the home education group session. That is a first!

The group today were watching the film, Leave to Remain which was very good. It was just the teenagers and I was so pleased to look around the room and see him on the sofa with the others, enjoying the film. We all had lunch together and he gently mocked the others as they had fruit, being the son of a Health Visitor he had a chocolate biscuit! As we packed away he joined in with the conversation with the others and laughed at their antics.  We then went onto the next venue where we had a lady from the local refugee support group gave a talk about the process of asylum seeking and dispelled the myths that the media and politicians tend to portray. 

As we left, the boy remarked that he likes the group and the people in it and how comfortable he feels when he is there. He said that if he went back to school, he would have to start again. This is very true and who knows what is around the corner as the local authority are finally starting to pull together and try and decide how he will be supported in his education. He may be offered a place in the specialist ASD unit at a very good school, which he may or may not like. His health is at the forefront of everything and I hope that he will try the unit because of the special support that is there. However I also know that home education group has parents there too that can point me in the right direction for exams and they also teach too. One mother I met today told me about her ASD son who is now attending college full time and getting the bus with a small group of friends. He sounded so much like the boy and I felt greatly reassured.

On current form, the boy is proving that school was not for him, he is engaging and learning and if that means we aren't mainstream in our approach in life then so be it. I am just so glad we did what we did and took that leap into the unknown, two years ago our home was fraught with so much anxiety and stress. Today he washed up the pots and pans without me even asking him to, he talks about his future,  his hopes and dreams  and deep down I know that he will go far