After I wrote the last post, I realized that only a weekend ago, we visited a family friend in an extremely social situation full of strangers, grown up and not. Actually, the number of kids there was more than any similar social get-together he had been to, except before SON RISE.
The key observations then were:
1. He clearly survived for the most part. He handled transitions easily, and had no fuss eating his special food.
2. He was rude to the other kids on several occasions, mostly around sharing. He would simply refuse to leave the backyard swing, for example.
3. The 4-ish year old younger son of the hosts who was extremely adorable and social, tapped Aditya on his cheeks. Aditya gave a huge and unpleasant reaction to this, after which apparently the little boy did it a few times. Aditya was in tears and in fact on the verge of a break down when I saw him a little later. He pointed to the boy and said he hates him because he touches him constantly on his cheek. I resolved the matter by explaining he was doing it because he liked Aditya (which is actually what the boy told me).
As I relish the moments of this weekend, I also recall the memories of the last weekend, and really, that sounds so exciting that he changed to the point of accepting other kids and being accepted too... just in a week. (Not to say that I need things to stay this way going forward. I am aware they can change.)
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