That's wonderful Donna! I don't think that it is that unusual for an Aspie
to do team sports. I do however, believe that it poses many challenges.
With two teams that he is playing on, that becomes a lot of people to keep
track of. I think he will get hyper focused on the strategy of the game,
and mostly ignore the social opportunity. This is fine but for me, that
hyper focus, has lead to a lot of frustration. It seems that all my team
mates are rushing arround doing their social things and talking about things
that happened when I wasn't there or things that I failed to observe/be
aware of at practice. You can support your son by walking through with him
how to respond to the organization of, say a team pasta feed diner. AKA,
make sure he is aware of his schedual, and your schedual(for rides) and
maybe even give him a policy on requesting and accepting rides from others+
money ect...

Timothy

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Donna Light <nubiangeek@...> wrote:

> I just wanted to update everyone on my son. He is a sophmore this year
> and he is participating in Honors classes and doing well. he
> other 'miracle' item is that he is on the varsity and JV football team.
> We are not a very sports family and so he had never watched or played
> football. His Biology teacher last year was one of the coaches and
> asked him to com and work out with them last year. So, this year he is
> a starter for the JV and fills in on the varsity team. I never thought,
> from when he was younger, that he would be able to play a team sport.
> It just goes to show what you can do when you put your mind to it.
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