Been think a lot of earlier this year, before the quarantine and everything. About all the things I’ve done with my son. Specifically the fact that I talked him into going to college parties.
I started hooking up with my son last year. He has Asperger’s syndrome, which causes a lack of social skills, and makes communication hard, so any social stuff makes him uncomfortable. But I’ve been able to help him open up, convinced him to do stuff he normally wouldn’t do.
At the beginning of this year, when his winter semester of college started. I was on his Facebook (don’t judge) and I was reading stuff that kids from his college were posting, and one thing I saw was people talking about a college party happening later that week. I asked my son about that. He’s never been to one and I really wanted to go because I thought it would be fun! After a while I was able to convince him to go, telling him that it will help him socially and to at least do it for me. He eventually agreed.