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[quote=Anonymous]DH has both the challenge of growing up with very strange parents and a diagnosis of HFA as an adult. He does not see the need to make conversation or small talk outside of work and big group events, where he knows it’s expected.

I’m exhausted by carrying every conversation at home with our kid. Last night, I said to DH as much and asked DH to please ask DD some questions about her day.

He didn’t and instead kept eating and stayed silent, and she carried most of the conversation.

Later he gave me the silent treatment, slept on the couch, and then blew up at me and said it was emasculating to be told to make conversation at the dinner table. I didn’t keep my cool and said it was embarrassing that he had to be told to actually connect with his daughter.

Pulling back from that: is dinner conversation normal? It was at my house growing up. It was at my friends’ house. It was in college in the dining hall, with my housemates in my 20s, etc. DH says that’s a crazy expectation. It’s not like he’s out of things to say because he’s spent the day talking to us. DD gets frustrated on long rides to school or sports and says he doesn’t talk to her or just makes work calls.

I feel like I’m going crazy and have lost a sense of what is normal in an established nuclear family. [/quote]

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