Ask someone with Asperger's syndrome.

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I know I do, sometimes, whether creating elaborate hypotheses for other people’s actions that may be a lot simpler, to the occasional points in my reviews for Anglotopia, whether it’s the time I argued Zardoz was a warped retelling of The Tempest or the time I reviewed “Nosedive” and spent an entire paragraph unpacking the symbolism in a character’s name that I wound up figuring is most likely unintentional, since I doubt Charlie Brooker speaks Hebrew and I only knew the word in question from a Leonard Cohen song that was released only a month before the episode was released.

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Any tips for a mom raising a child on the spectrum? He’s six and high functioning, selective mutism, and hates socializing. He receives therapy for learning to identify facial and body expression and for other social skills. He’s a very sweet kid at home and loves his cats.

I’d say if he has any trouble in school, get on that. If he gets bullied, don’t fuck around and make sure the school doesn’t. If the situation becomes toxic, find somewhere else that won’t be. I’d be a lot less fucked up if my mother didn’t insist on my going to the same grade school she went to because she thought everything else would be worse.

Thank you for the response.
So far no bullying. He’s in kindergarten and his brother is in the same school in sixth grade. His brother is pretty well known in school and everybody likes him. They know my little one as his brother and actually treat him well. When I’m in school I see kids stop to say hello to him even though they know he won’t respond. Nobody in school has heard him talk. Ever. I’m worried about next year, since my oldest will be moving on to middle school.