Just wondering if anyone has any bright ideas on how to tackle this.
DS is 13.5, AS/ADHD and very social, in that he loves being with people, looks forward to social events and does pretty well with them generally (years of practice 
). He doesn't have a huge social circle and I'm encouraging him to widen it, which he wants too, but we're having some real difficulties with getting him to approach potential friends.
In a mixed gathering he will start to chat to people, usually about Xbox games, and gets on well with most kids of mixed ages. That bit is fine.
In the last few months he's got to know a boy from his drama group and he's met up with him to go shopping and had him here to play Xbox games. Both went well, they enjoyed themselves and were keen to see each other again. But the problem is with making contact and suggesting a further meet-up. He becomes very anxious at the thought of texting this boy, even though he's comfortable with texting me, some family members and one other friend he knows well. I suspect it might be due to not knowing this new boy quite so well, but I can't think how to get round it.
I have tried to advise him, given him scripts to follow, broken it down to a one-line sentence eg "Do you want to do something on Tuesday?" but he just can't put it into a text and make contact. I know he wants to (have checked), and nothing happened in previous meets to put either of them off, but whatever I suggest he writes he says it doesn't sound like him and won't do it.
I've set up a Facebook account for him this week and he's asked the boy to send a friend request (he can't remember his surname to search himself), but it hasn't come through yet. I know the lad said he doesn't use FB very often so I'm thinking he probably uses text more.
Any suggestions as to how I can tackle this?
TIA.