Dang it

I was going to post today about my lovely birthday weekend but I just got off the phone with the 'counsellor' of Charlie's school, and I'm annoyed, and must rant instead.

Short background, Charlie's having issues in gym class, mostly, due to the fact he has trouble with social skills, and kids that age suck. There's barely any structure in a gym class at the best of times, and whenever the regular teacher is out it gets worse.

Anyway...stupid woman calls me and says she'd left me 'several' messages, none of which I got, and I'd have noticed miss calls at least; so she's either dialing the number wrong or she's lying.

The thing that annoys me the most is she asked if I would get information from Charlie's doctor and send it to her so she and the administrators of the school will know what some of the symptoms of Autism is.

Good freaking lord. It's in the news about 90% of the time, she should know this and hello? GOOGLE IT! How freaking hard is that?

I said I want Charlie out of the gym class totally for the remainder of the year. She is working on that.

Meanwhile, I don't know what to do. I tell Charlie not to touch people unless they give permission - so the boys are 'giving him' permission to touch their penises.

And...aside...grown people shouldn't call that part of the anatomy 'privates'. It's a body part. Deal with it.

I told her I've taught Charlie that the penis is not something to be ashamed of, so he probably doesn't realise it's 'weird' to touch someone's. So now I have to deal with that, as well. What do I tell him that won't turn him into some kind of sexual deviant or something?

Sigh.

Dang it

I was going to post today about my lovely birthday weekend but I just got off the phone with the 'counsellor' of Charlie's school, and I'm annoyed, and must rant instead.

Short background, Charlie's having issues in gym class, mostly, due to the fact he has trouble with social skills, and kids that age suck. There's barely any structure in a gym class at the best of times, and whenever the regular teacher is out it gets worse.

Anyway...stupid woman calls me and says she'd left me 'several' messages, none of which I got, and I'd have noticed miss calls at least; so she's either dialing the number wrong or she's lying.

The thing that annoys me the most is she asked if I would get information from Charlie's doctor and send it to her so she and the administrators of the school will know what some of the symptoms of Autism is.

Good freaking lord. It's in the news about 90% of the time, she should know this and hello? GOOGLE IT! How freaking hard is that?

I said I want Charlie out of the gym class totally for the remainder of the year. She is working on that.

Meanwhile, I don't know what to do. I tell Charlie not to touch people unless they give permission - so the boys are 'giving him' permission to touch their penises.

And...aside...grown people shouldn't call that part of the anatomy 'privates'. It's a body part. Deal with it.

I told her I've taught Charlie that the penis is not something to be ashamed of, so he probably doesn't realise it's 'weird' to touch someone's. So now I have to deal with that, as well. What do I tell him that won't turn him into some kind of sexual deviant or something?

Sigh.