Son with CP - need help

[Sue1966]

My son is 15 and literally does not want to go out of the house. He is happy in his own company, and his school friends live far away. I really worry that he does not have enough interaction with other kids his age. Please help it's driving me mad. What do other parent do with children like this? Any ideas gratefully received.

Thanks

ds wa like this(and still is a bit)he is 17 and nt, so don't worry to much it could be the teen bit rather than the cp iynwim

big hello to someone who has a dc in my dd's age range(she is 14 next week and has severe cp)

yeah my sons 15 and nt and hes happy with own company to , think its just the way he is ,as my nt ds whos 12 is always of out or got friends in

At last, I've found you!
I have a 14 year old ds with cp and sounds like we have much in common. His school is quite far away so although he has many friends he doesn't see them much outside of school, apart from a few parties a year and cinema trips we can organise.
He's into his computer and any sort of gaming, loves music and spends a lot of time making music videos etc. Although he's quite chatty and lively amongst family, he's perfectly content to be in his room for hours on end.
Very hard to know what's normal for a teenage boy and whether to insist that he joins in more. He rides on a Tuesday (unfortunately with two girls), and he goes to a dog training club where they are a lot of teenagers (he tries very hard to ignore them).
2shoes is right, it's so difficult to judge what's down to cp and what's down to Teenagerdom.
I remember when he first hit his teens I started a thread looking for anyone with a disabled teenage son. Where were you!

wow 2 of you now
I don't feel so alone anymore.

TMI alert
Yeah 2shoes but you don't have the worry of the 'how does a teenage boy whose hands don't work properly learn to ....' issue.
[Scuse me, perhaps a glass too many with Sunday lunch. I'll go and lie down before my son wrings my neck. Oh, that won't happen will it]

springlamb no I will worry about how a girl with too much extra movements in her hands will

It's a very difficult and challenging time, 2 shoes, says a now-totally-sober springlamb, wish there was more help.
Yep Riven. Trying to steer ds through stormy waters. As I keep telling him (usually when I'm gelling his hair and it's not suiting him) 'you didn't come with an instruction manual'.
Any tips on how you are getting your boys through? (In between the million other things you have to deal with)

me im winging and praying it as i go along,figure since there pretty good on whole im doing something right I hope

I once read some interesting stuf that one of the govenors at dd's sent me to look over.
it was all about how to help a teen through the akward business that teens need to do.

aspergers aged 15 was abit of both went to one set o events the rest o the time he kept to himself, still does

normal is whatever he chooses a person is not defined by there disabilitys but by the peson they become,

Thanks for all your responses, I don't feel so alone now!! I think maybe I should just back off and let him be who he is. I'm such a worrier.

Thanks again for taking the time to write.

EEK Riven they're not doing that Newquay thing are they? I'd be sniffing the Bells already.
Well DS has remained in his room all day making very loud guffawing noises, apart from the odd fridge raid (damn those kitkat wrappers, very fiddly) and coming to the pet shop where they attempted to steal a puppy.