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[quote=Anonymous]I think you need to teach your DC that it's inappropriate to start armchair diagnosing people for doing something a little bit immature and speculating that DD is "on the spectrum."

I have an older kid on the spectrum and a 13-y-o DD. The older kid wouldn't have thought about the connection between the yelling coach and the friend and thought to say anything, either in gossip (in which he does not engage, often maddeningly when I'm trying to find out something about a new friend or something) nor in warning. The 13-y-o would totally say something. Not on the spectrum.

Kids on the spectrum don't engage in theory of mind (or have a lot of trouble with it). In other words, they don't think ahead to make these connections and think that the friend should be warned or that it would be interesting to share the information. Of course some kids do, but not generally. My kid on the spectrum is very high functioning and verbal, for what it's worth. Just wouldn't make those connections.

Chill. 13-y-o girls are silly and like to gossip.[/quote]

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