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DH and DS have Asperger's. 
DS rarely has anxiety but does have a tendency to ruminate if I explain big events a long time in advance.
So don't have such a long lead time.

Also, one word of advice for the good of your stepdaughter: she needs to work on her social skills for her personal and professional future, and that means that you should encourage her to step out of her comfort zone and get her to think and talk about her own teen environment - her "friends", her school, her activities.

I know you are newly weds and very focused on making a home and babies, and I know it's very sweet of your step daughter to be so accommodating and domestic, and sweet of you to be so inclusive and motherly, but... she also needs to develop a sense of independence and outside interests.

My mother encouraged me to cocoon myself at home and prolong my childhood well into my late teens. It was very hard to become independent after that and I spent my 20s trying to catch up. I will not do that to my children, Aspie or not.

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