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My favorites:

- Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature
- John From Back Home
- FABRIC
- The White Vault (Season 1)
- Video Palace
- Old Gods of Appalachia
- Gospels of the Flood

Mid:
- The Sulphuric Secrets (good, just didn’t love the narration)
- Station 151
- Tower 4
- The Edge of Sleep
- The Harbingers

Didn’t Enjoy:

- Magnus Archives
- Alice Isn’t Dead
- The Bright Sessions

Couldn’t get into:

- The Silt Verses
- Dirt
- Unwell

I’m staying with my husband on a Friday night, and would love to walk somewhere to get breakfast / lunch.

My level II son and I were at the pool yesterday, and after he had jumped off the diving board with googles on approximately 390 times, the lifeguard told me he could not jump in with googles because it’s a safety hazard. He hates changes to rules, and he hates getting chlorine in his eyes.

I was like, “hey man, he’s autistic, he cannot stand water in his eyes. Could he not just do it for the rest of today?” Absolutely not—she was a champion diver—whatever—this diving board is only like 3 feet high.

So—I go very gently explain this to my son, and he was just like, “mama—I will just shut my eyes very, very tight,” and he did it no problem! He complained, but he didn’t let it ruin his time at the pool—a big win for us!

I don’t know the area, so this might be an absurd question. I’m a strong swimmer, but this would only be my 2nd time paddle boarding.

Level III parents: please only read the following content if you’re prepared to roll your eyes at me really hard:

Does anyone feel like there’s nothing out there for level II kids? In my area, there are specialized activities for kids who have much more significant needs than my child and regular activities that have a huge list of rules and expectations that might not work for my kid.

I feel like I’m stuck getting private lessons for anything my kid wants to try, when the whole point would be for him to bond with other kids?!

My son is 9 and conversational. He’s mostly academically on level, but he needs a loooot of patience that I don’t feel like everyone has. He could be in regular activities and sports, but when we do something like that, I have to gripe at him 5,000 times to get him to meet regular expectations, which isn’t fun for either of us. It also changes the point from “have fun, meet friends,” to “learn to behave in yet another environment with yet another set of rules.”

He looks “normal,” and he can talk, so it’s like the expectations jump to he has to do everything a neurotypical can do in the same way.

Anyways, I’m 99% a very happy autism mom—he’s great. I guess I’m asking, level II parents, what is your kid involved in, and how kid y’all make that work?

I feel drained and unsuccessful every time I deal with friendship conflict. I often feel I’m making it worse and many of the modalities I learned in counseling school (MI, brief solution-focused) aren’t helpful.

How are you helpful here? Do you see students individually? Together?

I’m talking about conflicts bad enough they’re ending in the office or distracting from school work, typically with large groups of girls.