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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP and everyone - this is such an important thread. I know the fact that this is an anonymous forum is likely what allows us to post with such honesty, but I do often wish we could meet and support each other in person. It helps so much to have other loving parents that continue to worry about their struggling kids. I know for us, we had many people with some kind of meaningful worry for their kids in elementary and middle school. But now that our DS is in high school, it feels like everyone else's kids are leveling out while mine is still such a source of worry. I feel equal parts happy for my friends and hopeful that means we will come out the other side of this too, but them also a little jealous and still isolated.

My DS's biggest hurdle is that he has no friends due to his level I ASD/ADHD but he wants them. I can see him getting in his own way and turning people off and just not having the insight to stop himself.  He's lonely and that makes him act immature and desperate, at an age where the other kids can smell that desperation and want to run the other direction. I just don't know anyone else whose kid has no real friends and wants them.

Also just letting it out on this thread - thanks for being a safe space, DCUM:)[/quote]

Mine is a freshmen in high school with no friends.  He isn't desperately lonely all the time but sometimes he is.  Plus I know how much less a drag school would be with friends. It's how I survived school!  Like your son, he is great when he has friends but is cringy when he is trying to get them and around groups of kids.  Kids are annoyed or turned off. There is nothing I can do to help[/quote]

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