Dance baby!

So once a month 'Milo's school has a dance during lunch...the first one was last Friday. The kids pay $2 to get in and they have a live DJ that spins. When he heard about it he was excited and said he wanted to go. Mind you, his classroom is only about 10 students or so that are in the AutCore program. Only 1 girl, statistically pretty right on mark. The kids in his class all eat lunch together but at the same time as all the mainstream kids. They don't interact too much with other kids just yet as it's still early in the school year; the AutCore kids all kinda just stick together. But still, 'Milo wanted to go to this dance, so I gave him $2 today when I dropped him off at school. Anxious to see how it went, I called my mom right after school was over. She said he was telling little brother that he went to this dance at school and it was so cool and so fun. This made the little one so excited to go to Middle school, which is still 2 years away for him. She passed the phone to 'Milo:
Me: "Hi son. Did you go to the dance today?"
'Milo: "yes"
Me: "did you have fun?"
'M: "yeah, they played Sugar and Harlem Shake"
Me: "did your friends go?"
'M: "no"
Me: "Oh...did you dance?"
'M: "yeah"
Me: "with a girl??"
'M: "no"
Me: "by yourself?"
'M: "yeah"
Me: "Good for you! I'm so proud of you! Are you going to go to the dance again next month?"
'M: "yeah!"
I admire him so much. Just went out there and did his thing and not embarrassed to do so...especially at an age when most kids can be self-conscious and not want to stand out, or on the flip side want to be cool by putting others down. Who knows if anyone was staring or laughing; the point is he wanted to dance and he did, even if he did so alone. It's more than I can say for most people I know including me!
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