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Anonymous wrote:As the parent of a SN kid myself, I'd never make scoring so high on the SAT a measure of whether I was proud of him, much less getting admitted to UVA or graduating with a great job.

Silly. OP isn’t saying he wouldn’t otherwise be proud of him. Just that everyone, most of all his son, worked really hard to do well. I don’t begrudge OP this moment of pride and joy at all. Beam away, OP, CONGRATS!!!!

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Congratulations! So happy for you and your son!

Amazing, OP. I would be bursting with pride too. It’s great to see your positive post here.

Yaaaaay! I have a 2e child and understand how amazing this is. Take today to savor the good moments. I can imagine there have been plenty of hard times.

For those of you who don’t understand how exciting this is, my child is a literal genius but needs extra help to get through almost every aspect of their daily life. Launching a child with extra needs and keeping the relationship with them healthy is incredibly hard. Let OP be proud please!

You all worked hard for this result, congratulations to your son, and to you, the parent!

My ADHD/ASD son had a similar K-12 profile, and is now a college freshman. I hope he will achieve like yours!

Best wishes going forward.

Love it!

That's amazing! Congrats to him!

Congratulations!!

congrats!

Anonymous wrote:I mean great, but exactly how is this special needs? Sounds like your son is a genius.

Yes. The kid got a near perfect SAT and did well enough in HS to go to UVA.

OP here. I would like to express my gratitude to teachers at Franklin Sherman ES, Cooper MS and Langley HS who did an amazing job with my DS. It is not easy to work with a SN kid. He would not be the person today without them. DS did go back and thank them in person. Salute to all teachers.

Anonymous wrote:Thank you for sharing and congrats!

My dd is in the initial IEP process now and I go back and forth between "this is going to give us all the answers we need and we can fix this!" and "she's going to drop out and live with us forever." It's nice to hear the success stories!

It’s probably somewhere in the middle. I went back and forth, too, and now I feel more…resigned isn’t the right word, but I guess accepting that this my son’s life. He has SN, is bright, and as a 11th grader still gets mediocre grades. He scores dead average on SAT (1010) and will go to a college where most kids got mediocre grades and scored 1000ish on the SAT. It doesn’t give proud mom vibes, but given the fear I also had that he’d never go to college, it’s pretty good. I try harder now to not be so invested in whether he goes to college or doesn’t, gets good grades or doesn’t. A lesson I try (and often fail) to learn daily.

Congratulations, OP. I’m sure your son has worked very hard and is a great young man.

That is great! I think it is more important that you express that to him and that he knows and acknowledges it. Or just demonstrate how proud you are of him.

Congratulations!!!

Anonymous wrote:What an odd post.

You clearly haven’t parented a LD kid. They don’t get the virtuous cycle that neurotypical kids receive - often without much effort.

To you good Sir - thanks for sticking by your child until the cycle rewarded. Congrats!