Yesterday I got home and Graham excitedly told me that his good friend Ben is transferring from Penn to UNC. Ben had been the star of Graham's high school Quiz Bowl team and had also been a standout at Penn. He was also Graham's main competitor for being the best history player on the team, in fact he was probable better than Graham because Ben is pretty much a prodigy and also has been doing Quiz Bowl for a long time and works hard at it. It is a credit to Graham that he is more excited to see his friend and also have his team improved than the fact that Ben will displace him as UNC's best history player.
Later, we watched the movie Air on Netflix. At around 10:30 I paused the movie to see where we were in it (we often stop at halfway and then watch the second half the next night). My instinct was right, we were about halfway through. Graham, however, pointed out that Tuesday nights are trivia night at Linda's and that he hadn't done anything social with his friends since Friday. In other words, he was going out movie or no movie. We finished the movie. It's awesome that Graham had that thought and forced the issue. Many kids on the spectrum might not have that instinct. Some time ago, Graham didn't. Now he does. Bravo.
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