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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS started in a new high school this year and seems to be adjusting OK. He comes home happy (as happy as a teenager in high school can be), but I worry that he seems to be taking a while to make friends. When I suggest him asking someone to get together over the weekend, he says that having "hang out friends" takes time and that he has friends in school, but no one close yet. He is a bit shy and I think, socially awkward. He has an older sister (now in college) whose phone was ringing non-stop and who had a busy high school social life. I know everyone is different, but it's hard not to compare the two experiences and I worry that he hasn't made any buddies yet. At his old school, it took him a while to make friends and he experienced a bit of middle school bullying that I fear may have left a deeper mark than we realized? Am I overly stressing? How can I help him?[/quote]

Stop comparing.  You asked, he answered.  I am a total introvert, and my phone "never rang off the hook", but guess what?  I had plenty of friends (that I am still in contact with 20 years later).  I just didn't want to talk to them at night after seeing them all day.  Just leave it alone for now.[/quote]

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