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[quote=Anonymous]Mine is 16 and has made progress. And the TL/DR version here is, yes, they do mature. Yes, it is slower than NT kids. Try not to think of it so much as catching up as preparing them to have life skills necessary to be a good friend/successful worker.  We all know adults who have varying levels of maturity, people skills, work skills, etc.

I'd tackle the off the wall behavior. Is there something in particular that stands out? And ask the therapist about some tools to address that.

For my son, he often damaged social connections by being bossy and angry. He got mad when things didn't go his way. When he wanted to play basketball at recess, but everyone else wanted to play four square? Huge meltdown and name calling. So we worked on developing more flexible thinking. To a neurotypical kid, you can often just say, take turns. Or find something different. And it's enough. It wasn't enough with my kid. So I taught him to always have a Plan B in mind. For everything, from not having gum to take to school, to having a girl break up with him, to not finding the right shoes for lacrosse. What will your plan B look like if your friends ditch you for the kid handing out the free vapes? What will your Plan B look like if you don't make varsity lacrosse?

After years and years of being rejected, he finally got a friend group in high school (socializing in middle school was  interrupted by COVID). He has a girl he's really interested in. He is being very thoughtful about his own emotional maturity, whether he wants to take it further and potentially get his heart broken. He is being very thoughtful about her feelings. Is he the most mature kid in his grade? Absolutely not. But he's grown a lot in the past few years.

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