LC Transcript Notes

Interests and Hobbies

  • Legend of Zelda: Reengaging with the game after a long break.
  • Cars: Interest in types of cars and cars from specific countries.
    • Porsche 911.
    • Mazda Miata (1990) - notable for having "eyeballs" (pop-up headlights).
  • Techie AI things: Interest in technology and artificial intelligence.
    • Chrome Music Lab: A fun application to play with.
  • Books: Bringing books to school, including a Legend of Zelda book related to Breath of the Wild.
  • Movies: Studio Ghibli films (anime genre), such as:
    • Howl's Moving Castle
    • The Boy and the Heron

Personal Strengths and Advocacy

  • Being a nerd: Embracing being a nerd as a way of being smart.
  • Advocacy: Actively caring about causes and participating in protests.
    • Attended a protest against the current president with a sign saying, "Leave my school alone."
  • Recognizing self as "really cool" (opinion).

Progress in Self-Regulation and Emotional Control

  • Keeping body safe: Improving in maintaining physical safety and self-control.
  • Therapy: Acknowledging the help received from a therapist.
    • Learning techniques like taking deep breaths and "stop and think."

Advice to Younger Self

  • Message to past self (Luke from 05/08/2024): "Just keep going. You're gonna get a lot better really soon."
  • Learning from actions: Emphasizing the importance of learning from one's actions.
  • Debrief process: Acknowledging progress in not fighting the debrief process, recognizing its good outcomes.

Future Goals and Areas for Improvement

  • Reducing upset feelings: Aiming to get to a point where getting upset is rare, especially at school.
  • Managing embarrassment: Recognizing that feeling upset at home is more comfortable and appropriate than in front of peers.
  • Taking ownership of reactions: Demonstrating increased awareness and control over reactions, with confidence in the ability to calm down.
  • Overcoming inner saboteur: Working to stop the inner voice that says, "You can't do it. This is too hard."

Current Triggers and Annoyances

  • Annoyance trigger: Getting annoyed, particularly by peers.
  • Sound sensitivity: Previously annoyed by sounds like sniffing or pencil sharpeners (less of an issue now).
  • "Bullying": Using the term bullying to describe situations where peers don't want to play the same games, take breaks, or exclude from play, which feels hurtful.
  • Different interests: Annoyance when peers want to play something different, like beatboxing, which is found silly.

Happiness and Excitement Triggers

  • Airplanes: Interest in airplanes.
  • Rare cars: Fascination with rare cars.

Improved Self-Awareness and Regulation

  • Awareness of time and place: Improved awareness of when and where to share specific interests.
    • Holding thoughts and deferring sharing information to a more appropriate time.
  • Handling rejection: Understanding that "not right now" doesn't mean never.
  • Handling not being called on: Demonstrating improved patience and emotional regulation when not called on first in class.
    • Previously, not being called on first would result in physical reactions like banging on the table and scowling.
  • Taking redirection: Accepting feedback and redirection without resistance.

Social-Emotional Learning and Perspective-Taking

  • IEP Excitement: Expressing excitement for the upcoming IEP meeting.
  • Constructive Taking: Learning about constructive taking/perspective-taking: considering situations from others' viewpoints, especially during disagreements or problem-solving.
    • Thinking about how situations might have looked or felt to others involved.
    • Considering what others might have been thinking or feeling in the moment.
    • Differentiating between facts and feelings, and providing evidence for claims.