Ds is 12. I’m puzzled by his reactions to things - he has always been this way but I assumed he would grow out of it ?
He’s always been extremely emotional, favoured objects over people and given them’feelings’ whereas he doesn’t seem to recognise that actual people have feelings ??
Some examples are once we walked past a sadly deceased cat at the side of the road - my friends dd was upset - ds was just very interested . Ds has no interest in making or maintaining friendships and often says things which are rude/hurtful which we point out and explain and he’s just so blank? Yet if one day he doesn’t eat all his food we will throw it away then he cries that he’s upset his dinner and wants it back ?? Once he broke a mug and cried for hours that it had ‘memories’ yet when his grandmother died (who he was very close to) he just shrugged and said ‘the end, I won’t see her ever again but every time I did see her I concentrated so much on enjoying time with her ‘ and that’s it he’s moved in and we thought he would be upset???
Today we were sorting things out and he found an old toy and asked for batteries so we had a look but didn’t have any, no problem as we have a delivery coming tomorrow so I added batteries. He’s cried for 4 hours and needs them now, he’s not being rude or demanding just sobbing for batteries and this doesn’t seem right for a 12 year old ? I’m not sure what to do