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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She sounds like she's on the spectrum: she's thoughtful about other people, but she ignores social niceties that she deems useless (because they are, to be honest). That's very typical for someone with high-functioning autism. My teen daughter is like this as well. The psychologist who diagnosed her explained in the feedback session that she cannot ignore certain social manners, even if they're entirely ridiculous and serve no purpose, because it's important for others to understand what she wants to signal. [/quote]

This. Even Sheldon’s character in Big Bang Theory reminds himself constantly of “the the social normal convention is…”.  There a whole episode about how gift giving rituals are useless but in the end he gives a gift to demonstrate to his girlfriend how pointless it is.  It’s a very well written character.  Maybe OP’s daughter is like this. Also, in the show Sheldon’s mom was a bit like OP - she taught him the “normal social conventions” and he knew he had to follow them.[/quote]

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