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[quote=Anonymous]I my circle, solidly half the kids have something like looks at least adhd to me. We moved to a new town 6 years ago so our circle is small. And ds has pretty severe social issues so while I’ve met parents through school, in most cases it’s not because our kids were friends. The three friends that ds has either become natural friends with (or I made friends with the parents and the kids got along at least tolerably) - two for sure have the adhd diagnosis (and parents have hinted at borderline asd) and the other one seems pretty obvious to me as adhd (bouncing off the walls). One couple we’ve recently become friends with, their daughter is on the spectrum. Another couple we’ve recently become friends with, our social group speculates that dad is on the spectrum - and I think son has similar traits. Another good friend of mine - her kid used to always have a hard time at bday parties because he was “emotionally intense” and recently changed schools because he was developing tics. A couple of those families have seconds kids who seem NT. And my closest friend’s kids are all NT. But the rest of that list are my closest friends or ds’s closest friends and all have one SN kid (or I would at least a speculate, being very familiar with the criteria). While the kids who ds is friends with id say there was a like finds like thing, DH and I are both NT and don’t have social issues - so it doesn’t explain why our friends kids are also SN.

Also, ds goes to a gifted school and that place is like half asd on the boys side. At a welcome brunch years ago, the counselor even said as much (essentially saying she ran a lot of social skills groups because with a highly gifted population, a significant number of kids were borderline spectrum at least as relates to social skills). When I’m on campus, this is pretty obvious. [/quote]

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