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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS has autism, fully mainstreamed in kinder. He is very talkative at home, can sustain interaction and maintain conversation with adults.  
He is always so excited to go to school every morning and is a teacher-pleaser.  However, he is very quiet with peers and has difficulty sustaining play / maintaining conversation with peers.  It's heart-wrenching to see him not feeling connected to his classmates and playing by himself.[b] He cannot explain to me either why he's such a different kid at school vs home.[/b]

If you have older kids with ASD, is this continue going to be a problem?  How can I help my DS to feel connected to his peers? 
We have weekly playdates with his classmates but watching his peers is making me more worried that the gap in my DS social skills is getting wider as he gets older.  [/quote]

Seriously?? Just stop. He's a kindergartner and you're asking him to explain why he behaves differently at school? How is it that YOU can't figure out that school has very different demands and relationships. He spends his day with 20 other kids and adults that he just met a few months ago. He is expected to perform academic tasks. He is expected to wait and follow group rules. All of that is very different from being in his home with a few people he has known his entire life. If he needs your attention he is not waiting his turn. If he's hungry or tired, he can usually get that need met. There are few academic tasks you require him to do.

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