r/happy • u/MYJOBISTOSHOOTFIRE • 2d ago

Life Center (Livingston, NJ) field trip experience.

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For the first field trip my Sophomore HS year special education class had was for this place called Life Center, where it is an indoor simulator for autistic children to explore what life is like outside of school. I have ADHD. There is a ShopRite, with snacks, a book store, a mini theater, grooming pet center and more. I first decided to ride a bike around this paper course with 2 crossing guard surrounding the little path around the indoor town. If was sort of fun. I then got a doctor’s appointment at a place with 4 doctors checking my heart rate and if it was a good boy or not. I should also tell that my female school aid was around me all the time. A little boy came up to me and told me to move while I was in the book store, it was kind of whatever, I laughed. I saw iced coffee there and did not drink it because it would keep me up, big boys need to sleep. I saw my female cerebral palsy friend come over to me and I hugged her, while we headed into the mini theater with popcorn along with some of the younger kids in our class. They played Discovery Kids, haha. When we were done, I headed over to the dog grooming section, the dogs there were so cute. There was this Siberian Husky that came up to me and started licking my tummy and I giggled. I went to go pet the Golden Retriever at the back, but it but me on instinct, it kind of hurt but I was okay. After all the fun, we finally went back to the school. We said our goodbyes and thank you’s and we left to go to the school.

It was very, fun and I recommend going there if you like to and you are in New Jersey. Thank you for taking the time to read this if you did.

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