My 12 year old son is autistic and goes to a special needs school for ADHD and LD who also accepts some autistic students. He's had a bad year socially because he has no friends. He's doing much better academically.
After going back to school in January, he's created what he's called "The Perfect World". In it he is 25 years old. He drives a Mustang, is married with four kids. He goes there only at school when he is stressed and only at home when he has had a meltdown and is trying to calm himself down which is about once a month now.
He was suspended for two days a couple of weeks ago for throwing a pair of scissors at another student.
This week he opened up at family therapy and told the therpist and myself this: at the time he threw the scissors he was in his perfect world and playing basketball with friends, friends he doesn't have. When he threw the scissors, he thought he was throwing a basketball. He's been getting in trouble since after Christmas for things like this.
He comes out of it in his principals office and doesn't know why he is there so he smiles and nods and agrees to whatever they tell him he has done.
Has anyone else come across this before? I don't know how alarmed to be or not be. Now I have to wait until next week to find out more since this was at the end of our session when my son revealed this.
I'm looking for a new school for him for next year, but don't know if I should attempt to homeschool him for the rest of the year since this behavior has surfaced.
12 year old autistic son disassociating? 
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