Some Good News; and just how unpredictable everything ASD is

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Great news! And maybe there isn't much to understand here, maybe he just did fantastic!

I got a 4 and I'm soooo glad I did. Freshman English sounded absolutely awful judging from what my friends said - so many pointless re-writes - I don't think I would have done well with it.

Great job kid!!

Not just the score, but the ATTITUDE. There is a HUGE difference between "I don't expect much, but I'll try" and "I can't do it anyway, so why bother??"

I see the latter attitude taught so often with ASDs. I hope it's something that happened to my generation and the one immediately after, that isn't going to bite our kids. I HOPE.

Excellent job to both of you.

Have you thought about writing to the AP organization to ask them to make it more obvious how to register for accommodations? For instance, maybe there should be a question on the registration form for the test like,

"Please describe any disability accommodations (typewriter, reader, etc) needed by the student. Forms needed are available at xyz".

One problem in this case was that the registration was done by the school, and they just didn't think of it.

The other problem with it all is that asking for the accommodation at the time of registration is too late; you have to get into the process months ahead of time, or it cannot be in place when the test is taken. We postponed my son's first sitting for the SAT because of that; I hadn't known what was involved until I went to register. At the time, I posted a warning here so that other parents will know to get into it early. The minute your child starts as a junior, in fact, is when I would suggest pulling that application together for the College Board (most of the tests go through the same organization, and once you have the approval code, you are good).

I agree, I really respected his attitude.

We were willing to let him out of it, assuming it wasn't worth the physical pain and distraction from his other studies, if it was going to really stress him out (he was pretty stressed by the idea). But we left it to him, and he is no quitter. He had heard it was always better to try with the AP tests, even if you got a low score, and so while he was disappointed that he didn't think he could possibly score well, he went into it determined to do his best. It is difficult to predict what he is going to put himself out for, but once he makes a decision, he is all in. I do think that will serve him well in life.