Dd is an only child and she has always "moved to the beat of her own drum". However I am starting to get really quite concerned that she is not showing any of the usual teen girl interests or moved towards growing up. To be clear I have no desire for her to start being interested in makeup, clothes, drinking or anything like that.
however she shows no real sign of what I would consider normal teen stuff. She still reads Malory Towers and the Famous Five, plays with hobbyhorses obsessively (yes I know it's a big thing in Finland etc abd normal there because I have to listen to it endlessly) and Prefers the company of 11yos over her peers. She is in a smaller school (60 in her year) and has a couple of friends but really only has her two female friends that she has known since she was 8. She gets along with the others but doesn't want to go to any effort to be more than acquaintances. Several of her previous good friends have grown away from her as they grow up. At school she is a music scholar and spends most of her free time with the music staff and the other music scholars.
I know that a lot of people will envy me but I'm getting a bit worried that she is not "keeping up" with her friends and becoming increasingly marginalised because she is so fixated on her very childish interests. She's also quite emotionally immature; her idea of fun is a tickle fight or playing chase and then moans nobody wants to have fun with her. She's bright and there are no issues with school work apart from getting her to do it.
I guess I need a bit of reassurance that this will pass or that it's not really unusual. ive got no problem with her liking these things but I'm worried she is losing friends because they don't want to play childish games with her, understandably. I don't know whether it might be a contributor but she only started her periods the month befor she turned 14