As most of you know my GS1 is on the autistic spectrum - bright, chatty, focussed on his current passion (whatever it is) and at times very much a teenager on the spectrum!
Today he started two weeks work experience for the organisation his mum works for. His passion is electronics, computers and pretty much anything he can take apart, rebuild, repurpose etc. In recent months he's built himself a gaming computer from 'bits' and a 3D printer from a kit, among other things. So WE in the IT Department sounded like a good idea. There is a whole section where electronic things are decommissioned (ie taken apart)
Today was Day 1. GS has been getting excited for weeks, so today could have gone very haywire as the excitement boiled over, or better than we could have hoped. This is what happened!
This morning: DIL sent me several photos, with GS looking either (1) attentive, (2) apprehensive, (3) belligerent (4) bolshi (5) overawed. Impossible to tell, but he did look rather smart and grown up!
In the background were racks and racks of various pieces of electronic equipment. DIL said that the lady looking after him was doing a very good job. By 4. 30 he was pretty tired, apparently. He doesn't understand pacing himself, ever!
DIL messaged that she was exhausted from the anxiety - hers not GS1's! It seems her anxiety peaked when GS commented, longingly, 'wouldn't it be great to slide down the steel banisters into the atrium" (several floors high)!!!! I said I thought she was a bit of a wuss - where was her sense of adventure!!! I won't tell you what she said to that! Apparently she had a bad dream on Saturday - that GS1 was prancing around the upper floor that skirts the atrium, in his underpants. I commented it could have been worse by one pair of underpants.
This afternoon GS1 was decommissioning lap tops - scavenging the memory, screens and keyboards from broken machines. Apparently he got through more than the regular staff could have done in a month, they said. We don't know whether he just worked quietly (and quickly!) or talked at them the whole time. Either scenario is possible. My DIL is getting worried they'll sack her and employ GS1 as he will be better value for money!
I'm hoping DIL sleeps ok, and is less worried tomorrow. It doesn't help that DS is currently in Australia!
Today he started two weeks work experience for the organisation his mum works for. His passion is electronics, computers and pretty much anything he can take apart, rebuild, repurpose etc. In recent months he's built himself a gaming computer from 'bits' and a 3D printer from a kit, among other things. So WE in the IT Department sounded like a good idea. There is a whole section where electronic things are decommissioned (ie taken apart)
Today was Day 1. GS has been getting excited for weeks, so today could have gone very haywire as the excitement boiled over, or better than we could have hoped. This is what happened!
This morning: DIL sent me several photos, with GS looking either (1) attentive, (2) apprehensive, (3) belligerent (4) bolshi (5) overawed. Impossible to tell, but he did look rather smart and grown up!
In the background were racks and racks of various pieces of electronic equipment. DIL said that the lady looking after him was doing a very good job. By 4. 30 he was pretty tired, apparently. He doesn't understand pacing himself, ever!
DIL messaged that she was exhausted from the anxiety - hers not GS1's! It seems her anxiety peaked when GS commented, longingly, 'wouldn't it be great to slide down the steel banisters into the atrium" (several floors high)!!!! I said I thought she was a bit of a wuss - where was her sense of adventure!!! I won't tell you what she said to that! Apparently she had a bad dream on Saturday - that GS1 was prancing around the upper floor that skirts the atrium, in his underpants. I commented it could have been worse by one pair of underpants.
This afternoon GS1 was decommissioning lap tops - scavenging the memory, screens and keyboards from broken machines. Apparently he got through more than the regular staff could have done in a month, they said. We don't know whether he just worked quietly (and quickly!) or talked at them the whole time. Either scenario is possible. My DIL is getting worried they'll sack her and employ GS1 as he will be better value for money!
I'm hoping DIL sleeps ok, and is less worried tomorrow. It doesn't help that DS is currently in Australia!
my G nephew does that and quickly , it can be exhausting just listening
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