Common Core is making my brilliant son with #Autism hate math :(

It's been a very frustrating day for me as a parent because Common Core has entered into the picture, for the first time I'm aware of. Emmett loves to learn and thrives on numbers and patterns. He loves school and is an extremely intelligent 7 year old. As of last school year, Emmett was moving through math so quickly that I started helping him learn more challenging math problems at home, just for run. He can do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. In some cases, in all cases he can do so with 3 or 4 digit numbers. Even more impressively, he does this in his head. I don't know how he does it but it's like he visualizes the number floating  around him and the answers just appear. Emmett…

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Telogen Effluvium… Ever heard of it?

Elliott's appointment today went really well.  He was super brave and the only time he really got nervous, was actually pretty funny. Dr. Handwork put on his latex gloves before checking Elliott's scalp, which is probably protocol. As soon as Elliott saw him put the gloves on he panicked. This was the exchange of words between him and I: Elliott: why did he put the gloves on? Me:  because he is going to be touching you. Elliott: (even more panicked than before) where is he going to touch me that he needs to wear gloves? Everyone began laughing and Dr. Handwork explained that he was wearing gloves so that could look through his hair.  Elliott relaxed again after that. Right now we are going to just hurry up and wait.…

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