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[quote=Anonymous]To be clear I’m not suggesting that every high school guy needs to be a varsity athlete, student body president, prom king or life of the party.  Part of me thinks that if a kid is happy as is and has some friends, it’s fine if they can only talk about video games, technology and random internet musings.  But after spending a weekend with a 17 yr old who is unable to make conversation with his peers or adults -- though he can talk about the most random things he’s reading on the internet but it’s a lecture not a conversation -- spends his life glued to a computer or video games and needs his mother to remind him of the most basic of tasks (the kind of clothing things you’d talk to a 10 yr old boy about - zipping up pants etc.) -- I’m thinking parents should focus on making sure kids “fit” in.  Is it totally wrong to try to “change” a kid so that they can talk to peers and adults about a few normal things like sports, music, news, and/or community topics?  While it's nice to march to the beat of your own drummer, how far do you let a kid go before you worry that they will become “that guy” at the office -- the guy sitting alone in his cube all day and no one interacts with him bc while he may be nice he says weird things and was never socialized the right way and after giving him 1-2 chances, no one wants to deal with it.[/quote]

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