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[quote=Anonymous]I am a mom with a lightly SN son, age eight.   Think ADHD inattentive and a little SPD.    I have had mom friends from the preschool years drift away because our sons no longer are friends.  [Moms of school-age boys will note here that young elementary boys make friends on the basis of shared activities (Star Wars, soccer, Redskins).  If you don't love soccer every day at school, you're not in the group anymore].    So when my unathletic, sensitive, bookish son wasn't up for continuous games of Transformers war, the other boys moved on and stopped asking for playdates.  So, I don't talk to their moms much.

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Meanwhile, like another PP, we too had to pull back from spending time with some other families over the years.  I would absolutely want to hang out at a wine bar with Mom and gab.   But joint meals with the kids in restaurants?  I can't.  No matter how much empathy I might have for a mom of a difficult-to-manage child .... does not negate the fact that such meals at Cafe Deluxe were 100% unpleasant from start to finish.   Indoor playdates, same thing.

Just because I understand -- and I really, really do -- why John is strangling my son and unpredictably hitting him in the back of the head when he's frustrated, doesn't mean it's a nice way to spend the afternoon.

So I try for the Mom night out at the wine bar with John's mom, but those are few and far between.  Then we drift away ...[/quote]

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