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[quote=Anonymous]My teen with HFA was like this when he was younger. We spelled it out to him and would not allow him to keep asking the same kid over or to keep obsessing about the same friend. We made a huge deal out of everytime he mentioned a new friend. Over and over we gave the message it's important to have many friends and how it's normal for kids to need breaks from eachother now and then. It did sink in, but he still asks me "Is it too soon to text so and so again" or "Is it too soon to ask blip if he wants to hang out this weekend?" The good news it's not just one kid. We have a good sense of who considers him a close friend and will want to see him more often vs. who is a kid who is a friend, but who has many friends and will not want to be that close to our son if that makes sense.

We do not allow constantly texting a kid or constantly trying to FaceTime and if he did not listen we would have a consequence. Nobody wants to feel stalked. In fact, our son had an obsessive friend in elementary who would cry if our son didn't play with him every day or our son left to play with someone else. The friend also kept inviting him over and would not accept no. We talked a lot about how he liked this kid, but then that behavior made him want to run away. It made sense to him.[/quote]

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