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[quote=Anonymous]I think this is more of a boy issue than an adhd issue, at least in ES and MS.

I look around ds’s school (which is gifted grades 2-12, and granted because of the gifted piece has a lot more quirky nerdy kids) and boys with true friends are the minority. Most of the boys have a couple kids they gravitate to, but the friendships aren’t deep like girl friendships - they just talk about Minecraft and school and whatever is immediately happening around them. If their schedules change next year, the boys they gravitate to are also likely to change just by virtue of proximity. At least that’s what I’ve seen. Sure, there are a couple boys in each class who are true thick friends, but not the norm.

This tracks with my childhood where I remember the boys in my class werent socializing with each other on the weekends in MS. They might hang with family or cousins or friends of family kids or neighbors or whomever was around. And it was until 7th or 8th grade that when the girls (we) started inviting boys to hang out with us on the weekends that the boys started regularly socializing with each other. And when I think back to MS, there are probably lots of boys I can think of who probably never hung out with another kid from school.

I think things got different in HS. [/quote]

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