[Magdalen] pencils

[Sibyl Smirl]

I have to have pencils for my sudoku addiction: need to have puzzles 
with squares large enough to put possible numbers in the corners and 
erase them when I have a "winner".  Only the very easiest can I do 
without the corner routine.   I once did crosswords, but now the 
crosswords in the newspaper go to waste.  When I did them, I did them in 
pencil.

I also use colored pencils for a number of things, including beadwork 
design and my checkbook.

One of my Asperger's groups on Facebook had a note from a father with a 
young boy in elementary school.  He was called in for a teacher 
conference because his son wouldn't stop sharpening his pencil.  He was 
compulsive: the point had to be perfect, and since points are never 
perfect, he'd just keep grinding away until the pencil was all gone, 
driving everybody else in the room nuts, other students as well as 
teacher.  (And wasting pencils).  The teacher wanted the father to 
convince him not to do that.  The father was familiar with the problem, 
BTDT: the boy had an Accommodation on his IEP to have a mechanical 
pencil.  The teacher had taken it away from him at the beginning of the 
year.  She protested, "But we can't have just one child provided with 
something special that the others can't have!"  DUH



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Sibyl Smirl
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