No worries, Jersey--I suppose I did a similar thing, posting, then heading up to my parents, staying there a bit, then going out with H for a while, then talking to my dad for about an hour after he dropped D off! Hope you had fun during your stay at the party.

As for D, I'm not sure if she knows about how her brain works differently--I know we've talked about the ADHD aspect (and anxiety), less so the autism part. I could try asking her about it, see what she says. I mean, she has to realize there are differences between her and the kids in the mainstream classes, I'd think. She's in a very small special ed classroom for English, math, and some other thing that I can never recall the name of, like "Communication and self-advocacy," then with what I keep calling the "general population" (like it's a prison or something) for art, science, social studies, and PE.