To worry about this teenager

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I don’t have dc so not sure if I’m being unreasonable.

Out walking the dog early evening and stopped and got chatting to a neighbour - I may be being paranoid due to the nature of our conversation (about crime in the area).

A young girl of around maybe 13/14 walked up to us and asked if she could play with ddog... I said of course. She then went on to say where she lives (exact house), that she is staying with her dad, how long for l, when they go on holiday (when the house will be empty), how she’s just dyed her hair etc etc.

I do assume that she has Aspergers or similar and was delightful to speak to - but fear a little bit that her openness combined with just wandering around speaking to strangers could put her in a dangerous position.

For some context - I had just been having. Convo with her neighbour that I wasn’t going to walk down the end of the road as that’s where set of drug dealers congregate - and i fear she could have easily gone that way rather than ours

Urm for a start Aspergers means you can't look or talk to strangers pretty much.

She sounds like a completely normal innocent chatty teen.

@tantric - sorry for armchair diagnosis. She wasn’t a normal chatty teen (I know plenty). She was definitely vulnerable for want of a better word

Not always. I know a lad with aspergers who is overly chatty and friendly to the same extent that I worry about him.

I realise I haven’t explained the oddness of the conversation very well... Teenager comes out of nowhere says “I live in house number x, road x, my name is x. Am staying with dad as mum has gone on holiday but we go on holiday on Tuesday etc etc”

Maybe I’m over protective but felt she was very vulnerable. As I say if she had turned right rather than left out of her house - there’s a house that has a load of heroin users sitting outside on sunny Friday nights (

my son is a bit like this, he has learning disabilities. Yes it is worrying and no I wouldn't let him wander around alone because of his vunerability

Aspergers means you can't look or talk to strangers pretty much

Er...no it doesn't!

Urm confused for a start Aspergers means you can't look or talk to strangers pretty much.

Urm, no it doesn’t.

Haha. Great minds...

Though armchair diagnosis aren’t always helpful, neither are armchair sweeping generalisations.

Urm for a start Aspergers means you can't look or talk to strangers pretty much.

No it doesn’t! My son has Aspergers and has zero issue with talking to strangers, in front of crowds, at all.

Exactly!

TantricTwist - absolutely not true!

for a start Aspergers means you can't look or talk to strangers pretty much.