Is this common for boys with S&L issues?

[Poshpaws]

DS2 (4yrs 10 months), S&L issues, started school in September.

He found it difficult socially, but has now found a little group to play with over the last few months and he is blossoming.

However, they all seem to be girls. Now, I have no problem with this, except I worry that once the genders start to drift apart (IME, around the ages of 6-7,as happened when DS1 went into YR1/2), he will be left alone. He is by nature, a real gentle, quiet boy.

When I ask him who he has played with, he mentions his best friend (a girl) and then a boy, but when I ask DS1 who DS2 plays with he says he has never seen him play with boys.

Ok, part of me knows I should not take an 8 year old's word as gospel in this situation, and DS2 is perfectly happy playing with the girls in school and they love him.

I know this is a bit of a non-issue, but I do seem to be irrationally worried about it .

Both my boys have had quite the female fan club ever since they started nursery. Girls who, basically, love to mother them and have ended up becoming their first friends. DS1, now in year 1, has since mostly cooled off towards the girls (and there's not many in his class, anyhow) but DS2 has lots of girls in his nursery class and likes all the attention, so long as he gets to have a feel of their hair! Even though he doesn't have much to do with the girls, anymore, DS1 tends to associate more with the calmer, gentler boys, rather than the rugged ones who play rough.

DS is 5 and it seems that girls have more patience with him, if he tries to mingle with the boy he just cannot keep up with their pace and they start pushing him away.
Breaks my heart actually.

Thanks for the replies.

I am not sure why I am so bothered by it, but perhaps if I saw him playing with boys it would 'normalise' him IYSWIM, as in 'There you go, despite his issues, he is still one of the boys'.

DSis thinks I need to just get over it, as at least he has friends and when I am in a rational mood, I agree. However,....

Maybe I just find it more difficult that I thought to accept that he is not like DS1 or DS3 , even if it is a mild difference.
Pathetic, I know.

DS does interact more with girls too. There are a couple of boys he calls 'his friends' and both of them have Speech delay too! He must feel more at ease with them than the verbally fluent boys he sees at nursery.

Ds1 used to be mothered by some of the girls but these days (he's 9) his friends are mainly boys. The girls are still keen but ds1 isn't.

Ds2 is often looked after by a lovely little group of girls but plays with boys too. I've found he talks more to girls but prefers the games that the boys play.

DS started off under the wing of a motherly girl, then has diverged to be friends with the a precocious very well spoken boy but mainly gets on with the rough and tumble boys (one of his little mates got sent to the head last week for messing around instead of doing their computer work LOL). In my somewhat limited experience, friendships are v. fluid indeed at this age, within the course of this school year things are likely to change.

The same thing has happened to my DS, his TA calls them his 'girlfriends'! DS has physical disabilities and slow communication. I would love him to have some friends who are boys but they all run around and play football, neither of which DS can do.