When teen geeks gather in groups....

Aspie teen joined a new social group for teens on the spectrum and wow!
He had a wonderful time :)
They met and chatted with Wendy Lawson, ate pizza, compared obsessions and plotted more LOLCats.
Apparently they yakked geek stuff for ages then they had to choose a group activity to do for next month, where they have to work together....yep, they're bringing their laptops and will be making a computer program to build computer games.
Ahhh, geek heaven!
Remember ....
Dr Sheldon Cooper is but one lab accident away from being a super villain!

Happy geeky joy joy

He's in 'a mood' today.
Hyper-sensitive to everything, being uber-concrete in his thinking and processing of what we say, not really engaged in this reality and getting crappy with us for daring to make him focus, to concentrate on the here and now.
Yeah, we're wicked nasty like that.
Even made him prepare his own anti-anxiety medication!
Consisted of him dropping 2 tablets into half a glass of water to dissolve.
Then he had to throw 6 various oil tablets down his gullet.
Simply savage parental units the poor mite suffers with.
He's off to a discussion with scientists tonight on evolution at the Melbourne Museum and he's currently got his 30 mins allowance on his Nintendo.
Geek kid is in his happy place!

Those inner diaries and hidden schedules

He's so full of energy and plans that sometimes he doesn't quite see the need for communication with those outside his own little world.
Today, for instance, he knew he had text book work to do but he went off to make an electromagnet.
No matter what he said, what we said or did, he couldn't concentrate or focus until he'd nutted out the materials he needed, where to find them in the shed, what he needed to buy and how long he'd need to make it.
No particular reason why he wanted to make one.
He just did.
So, after eventually talking through it with me he's agreed to get on with his book work until his father gets home and he can go shopping at the hardware store tomorrow for the bits that he's missing.
After the orthodontist appointment and maybe before the illustration session and well before he heads off to footy training.
We'll have to consult his inner diary just to make sure, though!