@atomicpoet how old is your kiddo, if it’s not too intrusive to ask? Starting to realise mine is probably on the spectrum, like me and probably her dad.

@atomicpoet thanks. That sort of helps me flesh out a picture of how long I’ll be trying to get her to reply to people- all good. Mine is a little over 2.

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@atomicpoet I have a feelings mine won’t talk properly for quiet a bit. I totally relate to wanting to talk about special interests. The rejection part is so hard tho. We take things very to heart.

I would love someone to tell smaller me that I can think of small talk as a game and have kids to play with/hang with, and dish out my special interests in stages on people I think might be worthy. I was good at learning rules.

@atomicpoet I tend to gamify special interests like: stage one: a one liner about a special interest. Are they all ears or more like “oh ok lol”. A social “if else statement”, if you will.

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