My 12 old son has no friends. Any advice welcome it’s breaking my heart him being and feeling so lonely.
He’s diagnosed asd and has always struggled a little socially but has always done his best and up until high school had friends. He had one very close best friend who since going to different high schools have drifted apart. I tried to keep the friendship going as I know it was very important to my son who truly valued his best friend but the boys mum wasn’t very reciprocal. I used to invite him for tea weekly and take them on days out most weeks. My son and his friend had a little argument over something silly and since then the boy has blocked my son and not been in contact with him since around February :( he still talks about him weekly and hopes that they will be friends again. But I’m not so hopeful.
Since starting high school my son has struggled massively in mainstream. I’ve battled to get him an Ehcp and finally he has one but trying to get him into a more suitable setting is beyond difficult 😣 and he’s been put on a 8.30-10-30 daily timetable at his current school to help him not get suspended daily from being disregulated in an unsuitable setting. So he’s not getting to socialise and make any friends and it’s got to the point he himself is telling me he just wants one good friend and that he feels lonely and like nobody likes him. 💔
I've signed him up to swimming hoping he may make some friends there but in the +8 class he’s in he’s the oldest and feels really uncomfortable and like he’s with little kids. I’ve tried to get him to martial arts or something he could let out some of his frustration and for the fact he loves Kobra Kai but he’s too anxious and self conscious at this point to go. I don’t know anyone with male kids his age and have tried joining Sen groups but him being high functioning he struggles to feel like he fits in at these meet ups either :(
has anyone been in a similar position? Or any advice please