The Lorax
Well-Known Member
As you all know occasionally I post about my son to ask the community about what I am missing.
Well we resolved 90% of his school anxiety. He was playing a PvP game every night casually and getting destroyed by kids that play it 24/7. Being a gamer playing games like DOTA I 100% understand the frustration. So we said don't play it for these reasons and explained how stress impacts the system and the neurochemicals, again, and he didn't play it and is now happy and going to school.
But....
We discovered a pattern with him and school work.
Anything that has to do with reading an essay and writing about it sends his anxiety through the roof.
He reads and writes like an adult.
But he went to do his PSAT, which he scored top 1% last year, and he wigged out walking out of the school when the essay part came.
He had a book to read, Ender's Game, and he just can't do it. He can't read it and do an essay on what he read. He has to do it in small portions.
He has a history test reading 2 paragraphs and answering a multiple choice question. He had an anxiety attack over it.
Now I read that history question and I had to read it 3x to absorb all of it to answer the question. It is for an AP class.
I can't find what this issue he has is. He understands what he reads.
Is this executive function?
It isn't hyperlexia
is it ADD?
Is it lack of Theory of Mind? He is pretty ASD light.
Maybe someone can shed some light on this?
The odd thing is my wife is an avid book reader and when she was his age she loooooooved doing book reports. She has the ASD in the family.
Yet he aces science, math, and does the history work in class. He critically thinks and is self aware which for a 15 year old is pretty good.
Well we resolved 90% of his school anxiety. He was playing a PvP game every night casually and getting destroyed by kids that play it 24/7. Being a gamer playing games like DOTA I 100% understand the frustration. So we said don't play it for these reasons and explained how stress impacts the system and the neurochemicals, again, and he didn't play it and is now happy and going to school.
But....
We discovered a pattern with him and school work.
Anything that has to do with reading an essay and writing about it sends his anxiety through the roof.
He reads and writes like an adult.
But he went to do his PSAT, which he scored top 1% last year, and he wigged out walking out of the school when the essay part came.
He had a book to read, Ender's Game, and he just can't do it. He can't read it and do an essay on what he read. He has to do it in small portions.
He has a history test reading 2 paragraphs and answering a multiple choice question. He had an anxiety attack over it.
Now I read that history question and I had to read it 3x to absorb all of it to answer the question. It is for an AP class.
I can't find what this issue he has is. He understands what he reads.
Is this executive function?
It isn't hyperlexia
is it ADD?
Is it lack of Theory of Mind? He is pretty ASD light.
Maybe someone can shed some light on this?
The odd thing is my wife is an avid book reader and when she was his age she loooooooved doing book reports. She has the ASD in the family.
Yet he aces science, math, and does the history work in class. He critically thinks and is self aware which for a 15 year old is pretty good.