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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kindergarten is the easiest time in elementary for a child who is ND to be in a NT school, and it will get harder every year at least until the very end of elementary. So if you have doubts now that it will work, save yourself some grief and go look at ND schools, because you may end up switching there anyway.

In the end it will come down to the actual school options you have.

Also, I'm not sure "masking" is a useful term with kids that young. it's more like he can act appropriately in a structured class setting where expectations are very clear, and he won't necessarily understand how to behave in a situation when there is more flexibility or ambiguity. That's to be expected and a reason to look for a school that is quite explicit in its expectations. [/quote]Thank you for that perspective. I think he will get in to at least one NT and ND school. He’s unbelievably smart, performs well on assessments, and can follow a classroom routine. I’m worried about what happens after acceptance. If he goes to an ND school for 2E students, he’ll thrive academically with other students like him and potentially be spared from bullying. On the other hand, he won’t have any NT peers and will he be able to grow in his social skills, handling ambiguous situations, etc. if he’s too comfortable?[/quote]

I understand where you’re coming from and I felt much the same when my son was young. My experience is that kids with ASD have a hard time absorbing social skills from others. If they could just naturally understand how to handle situations or where to stand next to someone else or have insight into others’ motivations  (the way many NT kids do) they wouldn’t have ASD. Even very smart kids with ASD need more explicit teaching about behavior and social interactions.

My son attended a mostly NT private and even though they did a lot of social emotional learning, it was geared to NT kids and it wasn’t really explicit enough for him. The autistic brain is just wired to need certain things explained.

I will say that our experience at the NT private was not easy and I felt many times over the years that he would be asked to leave. He was not, but don’t discount the stress of that. If there had been a good school for 2E kids in our area that might have been better.[/quote]

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