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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter was diagnosed at age 5; she's 18 now. She briefly had a female friend in 4th grade, but never before or after that. Girls' friendships are too much based on social communication, and she can't keep up. Signs at diagnosis included frequent emotional dysregulation, almost complete disengagement from peers, and insistence on routines. No language delay, although she rarely spoke outside the house.[/quote] Do you mean that she had no interest in her peers?[/quote] A combination of no interest and inappropriate interest. At one playdate I took her to shortly before she was diagnosed, she spent the whole time pushing random buttons on her classmate's baby sister's toys and ignored her classmate. But she would also identify one classmate at a time as her friend, and for the several months they were "friends," follow that kid around -- not playing together, just hovering.[/quote]
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