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[quote=Anonymous]And I guess I worried that my son might be gay because he has enough challenges as it is. He has ASD, ADHD, partial hearing loss in his right ear and, as we have only recently found out, partial color blindness. My son also carries the gene that runs in my father’s mother’s family that causes stuttering. My son’s stutter began at three, as mine did. But unlike my parents, who punished me for stuttering which made my stutter permanent, I had become an expert on the subject and knew exactly how to handle it. By the age of five my son could hardly utter a sound but I gave my wife strict instructions on how to handle it. Now his blocking and struggling have entirely disappeared and his repetitions sound sort of like the upper class British affectation. He used to be almost helpless at school because of his ASD. But he had an IEP so he got help and a wonderful girl classmate kind of adopted him and helped him out. I was afraid he would be a target for bullies but it never worked out that way. Everyone wanted to be his friend. In a weird way his ASD actually helped because it made it so difficult to become his friend. As my father in law says, his looks helped him, too. I’m half Jewish and half WASP and DW is Korean. I’m not sure what my son is but he has exotic good looks and worked with a modeling agency in New York City before we moved to D.C. because I got a job as a trial lawyer at DOJ. I’m not the only stuttering trial lawyer and I’m not the first but there aren’t many of us and we all know each other. My son became a terrible discipline problem when I sent him to the Auburn School for kids with ASD where his Neuropsych said he’d be a perfect fit. He even hit, kicked and bit the teachers. I remember meeting my son’s female desk mate at a birthday party. She told me she was my son’s desk mate “with all the benefits and drawbacks that go along with that.”  Her words. So I guess I just felt that, being gay, if he were gay, might be one challenge too many. But I actually hated Auburn, too. I took my son out and sent him to Fusion, where he excelled. My son’s also been the top rated Kindergarten through Eighth Grade chess player in D.C. for years. He’s now attending a very highly rated boarding school in Western Massachusetts and is top of his class. It’s all boys, which is fine with my asexual son. But he didn’t want to board. He still wants to live with me so I bought a house up there. They say a parent shouldn’t be a friend but my son is my best friend in the world. He’s also the moral conscience of our family. He won’t allow me to have an occasional beer and he made DW and I stop having occasional marijuana. He’s quite strict with us. [/quote]

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