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[quote=Anonymous]DD is 7, will be 8 in a couple months. 2nd grade.

I wish I could say exactly what I mean by weird, maybe that would help me as well. She's slow to warm up to people, and that can be perceived as weird by other kids, who will label her as shy (as will teachers sometimes). She's not really, it just takes her some time to get used to a new class. She is smart and bookish, and likes to read a lot, including during times when other kids might choose to play, and I think that is also considered weird or anti-social.

Last year when she was spending recess alone a lot, I asked her about it and she said that the other kids played "too fast." Like literally their form of playing was just running from one thing to the next, announcing a new rule to a game and then running off again. The pace felt frenetic to her and she'd feel stressed if she didn't hear what someone said. She'd play "wrong" and one of the other kids would say something like "no, not like THAT" and even though it wasn't like a targeted attack or something, she'd just feel like it was too much. I think that's how the playing alone thing started, and that's why we were encouraged when she started this friendship with these two girls because it seemed like they might be more her speed. But then that didn't work out either.[/quote]

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