My son age 22 has Asperger's or autistic spectrum disorder , he is currently at the end of a 2 year engineering diploma , in the first year he was nailing it , top of the class and rightly so , he was staying on in college for two or three extra hours a day studying , he really worked for it ! Then Covid 19 hit and it all went to online lectures , lecturers were as everywhere not equipped to teach from home , his CAD lecturer and half the students did not have CAD capable computers at home , thee was no way to do workshop parts of the course and his spirits just plummeted , heartbreaking to have to watch but I'm sure I'm not the only parent in this position , to cap it off this was to be the last year when the course was to be marked on coursework , next year it's exam based and his Asperger's kicks in during exams , his anxiety just renders him into a nervous wreck so he really saw it as now or never .
To cap it of a large part of the final years marks is based on a student chosen engineering project to be designed and built for assesment !
Finally there was something I could do , with him over my shoulder we drew up his design in CAD (Fusion 360) and started 3d printing test components , today I watched him on my lath turn up the final component in metal to make it work !
He took it of to his room to put it together , ten minutes later he's bounding down the stairs beaming from ear to ear , the stress that's been present for over a year melting away
It's a good day today !
I hope all the children everywhere can come through with the education they deserve after a couple of very hard years , and maybe smile like my son did today !
If a jobs not worth doing then its certainly not worth doing well.
A problem shared is a problem halved but an advantage shared is no advantage at all.
