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This weekend with da feels (long)

Apr 22, 2018, 10:17 AM

I’m getting too emotional as I age. Emptied out the tear ducts plenty this weekend.

I’ve shared some background re: my son on the autism spectrum. He’s come a long way and is somewhat high functioning these days. Been playing on a Coaches Pitch baseball team this spring. No hits, but coaches do a great job of supporting him and getting him into the outfield a few innings each game.

Friday afternoon game during his at bat, they stopped the game and announced an ‘unlimited strike’ at bat. Coach pitched much closer than normal, and son finally made contact.

What I didn’t know, is our coach coordinated a ‘hero homerun’ with the other teams’ coach. The other team proceeded to Bad News Bear throw the ball all over the field, allowing my son to hit a 5ft ‘homerun’ and race around the bases. Both teams ran out of dugout and swarmed son at home.

Confidence sky high and smile on his face, son smoked the ball to 3B next at bat. Crowd erupts. My son too busy celebrating the hit that he forgot to run to first. Exciting times nonetheless.

Son awarded the game ball and he has slept with it each night. @ryanadidas needs this coach.

Saturday morning was a concert/recital for special needs kids using music therapy. Wide range of functioning children, but incredible to see transformation once they are given instrument or chance to perform. One boy could barely control his muscles before performance, but played a beautiful song on the piano. It was uplifting and a blessing to see the smiles on both children and parents.

Thanks for listening. Love your children and give them hugs. Continue to lift up any child who struggles.

Now back to regular Lunge programming.

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The kid's parents said he was actually pretty good at golf but that he enjoyed being on a team. He didn't completely suck at soccer, mostly he was just easily distracted and lacked attention. But he did a good job at playing defense, mostly just getting in the way of the other team.

Possibly the proudest I've ever been of my son was the last quarter of his team's last game. Their team was up by a lot and both my son and this kid were playing forward. My son had numerous opportunities to score, yet every time he yelled this kid's name and passed it to him. My son was a monster that quarter constantly tracking the ball down with his only goal to get this kid a goal. Each time the kid either mishandled the pass, missed the goal, or the goalie made a save. Finally he helped get this kid set up and the kid scored. The kid's celebration was awesome and my son just casually walked back to center and high fived him.

I asked my son after the game if the coach had asked him to do that, he just said "no, last season I didn't score a goal and I wanted him to score".

This weekend with da feels (long)

:) ******

Thats really cool the coaches orchestrated that.***

That is awesome******

good stuff, how it ought to be at that age.

That's great!***

Excellent.

Best thing I've read today, thanks for that dave!***

Mumbette has worked a lot with special needs kids, some with

That's awesome

Is this real?

Re: This weekend with da feels (long)

WOW. That got me a little choked up.

I'm not teared up, shut up.***

Great story! I can relate to dem feels...

It's controversial these days

I'm not crying you're crying***

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2nd r/JesusChristReddit I have seen on here today***

Not gonna happen

My son had an autistic teammate in soccer a couple years ago

You are raising your son to be a good man!***

I keep trying to tell his middle school teachers that

wow,

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