Middle School: Check-In and Check-Out 3 of 9 part series
Breathe in, breathe out….. It’s going to be ok. This new adventure has got to be a better experience than Elementary School. I was hopeful that switching classrooms every 43 minutes would be a good thing for you. But oof…. A bigger school means bigger kids. And bigger kids means more judgement. A much bigger challenge to fit into an environment that was not built for a neurodiverse kid. I think you took a piece of my heart with you to school that morning. All I ever wanted to do was protect you. And for you to see what an amazing kid you were. You were entering this new school broken from your experience in Elementary School, and I was just hoping that it wasn’t too late to repair all that trauma. It took a while before the “honeymoon” period wore off. You were always good at giving us false hope at the beginning of every school year. And then it began, phone calls, emails, lunch detentions. Things like blurting out in class, inappropriately playing with the fidgets your poor gui...