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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Jun 14, 2008, at 2:34 PM, SJC wrote:

> My 3 kids (now 39, 35, and 31) were "unschooled" many years before I
> ever heard the word, in Virginia's tidewater area (a particularly  
> rabid
> bastion of  stay-inside-the-lines). . . . He's my son; I'm his  
> mother and very proud
> of him: he's doing much better than 95% of adult autistics I've  
> met.  He
> still is uncomfortable for the most part with people but was  
> empathetic
> enough to quit his job and move up here (he lives in VA, I'm in ME)  
> for
> a year to help me rebuild after the fire.  His brothers are average
> guys, plenty bright but not exceptional, and just a couple of weeks  
> ago
> the middle one commented, "You know, I guess we should thank David for
> paving the way for us learning the way we did."   Indeed, kiddo.

Wow. Well done! I am way past impressed.

Just wonderful.