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[quote=Anonymous]OP, life changes, which is going to be harder for the other child to accept s. For your daughter. Unfortunate.y, that’s part of her condition.

Being kind and being friends are different things. Sooner or later, your daughter will be an adult in a car pool with a gum smacker or something. She won’t have to be friends with him, but she will have to be kind.

Sure, she’s sad to see her friendship changing, but these are also the growing pains of life. You can Talk to her about how things change. You can talk to her about friendship and being loyal, even with reduced time, even if things change. You can talk to her about being kind to others, and imagining if her friend one “leaving” her. But you can’t force her to be friends with this girl.

And as PP already said, model those behaviours.

I have a friend on the spectrum. He’s a wonderful person, but a challenge to maintain a relationship with. That being said, we’ve been friends for close to 20 years. I’m actually shocked at the number of adults who would tell their children to be kind to another child “like him”, but with how much lack of understanding and cruelty he is often met with. He also has a lot of people who care for him deeply, even if he doesn’t always understand it.

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