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[quote=Anonymous]OP my son went through this same experience at the start of middle school, too. My son remains fairly oblivious to the fact that it means “something” when invites are not reciprocated (meaning, he doesn’t take it personally which is due to lack of self awareness but does help his feelings from being hurt) and the parts we have encouraged him to do are initiate invites himself rather than we his parents doing it for him and branching out to new people. The pp makes a very good point that your son is ruling out friendships and I understand it is not coming from a place of intentional exclusion but that is probably how these other boys feel, too (they probably just feel they don’t have much in common with your son anymore, and that may not mean due to specific interests but instead due to personality styles or level of maturity). We also encouraged our son to get involved with an activity run by the middle school which did help him make some new friends, who we then encouraged him to connect with outside of school. My son is still not the most social kid in the neighborhood but he is satisfied with his friendships. [/quote]

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