Friendship and autism

[Barbararara]

Can anyone recommend some resources/books/general pointers on friendship to help support a child with autism.

Ds struggles socially, and has very high standards for his friends which they fail. He is quite black and white and inclined to be intolerant because of it, or judge people as “surprisingly evil” underneath their nice exterior.
I just need help figuring out how to talk to him about his expectations. He’s a very intelligent, articulate eleven year old.

I used soaps on TV as my DD used to be interested in them but not 'get' any of the nuances, so we worked on that. Their storylines are easily predictable, there are lots of examples of human behaviour and the facial expressions can be quite exaggerated which was good from my point of view. The old re-runs of Emmerdale on now may appeal as an aid as the storylines were more black and white then.
If he's not interested in those, what does he like to watch, and can you derive any examples from those storylines for him?

Don't forget that despite his high intelligence, emotionally he's likely to be about two thirds of his chronological age, so you need to alter your expectations about how much he can process, it's so easy to overlook that need in highly articulate children.

I hadn’t thought about soaps. Thank you