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[quote=Anonymous]I have a young adult daughter who is mildly on the spectrum. It’s mainly social stuff. Her diagnosis was social pragmatic communication disorder. Looking back, I should have gotten her some help for it. But it didn’t really become an issue until she was older and then she rejected the label. So there is no way she will pursue help for it.

The biggest thing we have issues with relates to flat affect. She almost always seems bored and uninterested and it makes me anxious and I get upset. But then she says she wasn’t unhappy. I notice when she’s with her friends she is more animated and I felt like it was a reflection on how she didn’t like being around her family. But now I’m wondering if she’s actually masking with her friends and we are getting the “real” her.

If she would acknowledge I feel like it could be better? But she doesn’t acknowledge it. So I just always feel like she’s annoyed or bored and we sort of get in an argument and she says she isn’t. And then I feel like a jerk.

Basically, any suggestions on how I can more constructively deal with this? Take her on her word that she isn’t upset and her emotions and face just aren’t matching? It’s really hard! But what I’m doing isn’t working and it makes me sad. She is 19, so technically an adult now. [/quote]

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