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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - I won't intervene!  I know better than that. Part-time job would be great, but at 14 that has been hard to achieve. He dog walks for many of the neighbors but that is solitary.

I do offer to car pool a lot because I feel like it gives him one on one time with other kids, someone to walk into the building with.  But I see the kids I know already have their groups.

I just wasn't sure if there was anything I could do that wouldn't be obvious.  I hope he find his people in high school.

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Just keep encouraging him in activities. It keeps him busy and keeping up his social skills, and when he’s ready he will make friends there. I was pp with 15 yo daughter with adhd. At the beginning of this year she started in dance classes (she had done dance at school before this) and at the winter recital I helped out and I saw her either sitting alone or with a much younger girl she knew from middle school. All the other kids were hanging with friends and chattering all over and I worried. By the may recital she had hung out with girls from her class several times and had carpools set up, such a difference. Her social calendar is suddenly full.

She needed to mature - I promise you if he’s adhd this is it. It will happen. And when it does - he’s a quiet non offensive kid no one has an opinion of. He has no enemies and people don’t dislike him. He will slip seamlessly into some groups. I watched it happen. My daughter says no one really knew her until now - which is actually helping her socially a lot. She is liked and has made no enemies, unlike my older one who matured early and had the usual middle school drama. Now that we are past it I see the positives.[/quote]

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