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[quote=Anonymous]DS is neurotypical but his passion is math and he is more studious. He plays rec sports and is conversant in athletic conversations, ie he can talk football and basketball and baseball with the more athletic kids while nerding out with the more academic kids. He has one or two good friends and seems happy with the depth of his relationships with other kids at school.

His closest friends are kids in Scouts with him. He has played rec sports since he was 5 and made 0 friends. He has attended school with the same group of kids, a smaller public school, and gets along fine with everyone. But the kids who are invited over and who he hangs out with are kids from school and Scouts. His friends who play travel sports have good friends that are on the team but those kids are together more and have more down time at tournaments and the like then kids playing rec sports.

Find an activity that he likes that meets on a year round basis and has time for socializing. Kids don’t have a ton of time at school to socialize. Rec sports tend not to have time for socializing. Most activities are focused on the activity and run for a short window of time, they don’t give kids a chance to get to know each other. Scouts, 4H, religious youth groups, Saturday language schools all give kids time to get to know each other as well as do whatever activity.

Our school had a language immersion program, the kids from outside the boundary didn’t really hang out a ton with the neighborhood kids because it took more effort. Some of those out of boundary kids have struggled at MS because the kids they went to ES with are not kids they really bonded with and they didn’t get to know their neighborhood kids because they were at different schools. Choosing to put your kid in a school where there are fewer opportunities to grow bonds developing at school is only making the social issues more challenging. But you know that.[/quote]

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