re: #568 A Mom Anon

Yep. That would mean they’d have to acknowledge other humans as being, well, human. Heaven forbid. I wish other states would take this program here in GA and model it all over the country. The people working there(those awful public sector workers) are devoted to the young people in their care, they certainly aren’t doing it for the big money. This is something GA could actually be very proud of.

How are your youngsters doing with school and stuff?

Well, the older one (the one with ASD and Social Anxiety) wants to go back to school (community college) with an eye to going into research in psychology/biology, but in the meanwhile he’s looking into a program that trains students for cooking in a professional kitchen. I don’t see that working out, myself: 8-12 hours a day in a hot, noisy place, cooking food he doesn’t personally like, for strangers. On the plus side, he’d never have to talk to the strangers!

The younger one let his anxiety about school prevent him registering for this term till it was too late to get into anything but Underwater Bastketweaving, so he’s looking for seasonal retail work. And I think he knows that when I ask if he’s registered for NEXT term, I will seriously kick his ass if he just says, “Don’t worry, Dad. I got this”, which is what he said all summer.

I sometimes worry less about the older one.