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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In person. Only wants to hang out with that person and 24/7. Constantly texting them and wanting to hang out. Way beyond normal. Doctors say targeting the flexibility and taking social skills classes will help. I’m looking for success stories since we are at the early stages of interventions and she’s not responding.  DD won’t or can’t acknowledge the issue at the moment but she’s not in total denial about the ASD.  I don’t intervene in these friendships. I feel terrible for both DD and the targeted friend. It’s exhausting for all of us.  [/quote]

My son was like this at that age. He was diagnosed at 11, although we had noticed issues with this previously. Sadly, it took a few years for him to be willing to lighten up, but at 15 he's doing MUCH better with this. He did change school districts for high school (moved in with his other parent - we've been separated for years), and that seemed to have helped because it gave him a totally fresh start. He's still a bit behind his peers socially, but the gap is narrowing and the interventions we've been doing seem to be helping. [/quote]

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