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[quote=Anonymous]I agree it's within the range of normal, but might also be a flag for a borderline ASD, which in girls can often manifest as this sort of very blunt, or rule-focused approach to things.  I'd keep an eye on it, and also on how her friendships are developing.  Over the next few years, girls start to develop much more nuanced ways of communicating and this is where girls who are on the spectrum or near the spectrum start to struggle socially when they miss these social cues and are more blunt than is typically expected.  (Just as an example, think about all the times your female friends have bought awful clothes/had awful haircuts and asked you what you thought.....what did you say?  There's a lot more tolerance for blunt responses in the male world -- my teen son's friends would absolutely tell him if he got an awful haircut, and there might even be a nickname associated iwth it.  Whereas my daughter's friends would go out of their way to tell her that it looked really good, even or especially if it was awful.)[/quote]

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