Thank you for this thread. You know over the course of the last month of reading I have reflected on my own life a lot and realised that my previous assumptions about why I was so isolated in school, while quite plausible, were probably not the only issue, or even the primary issue. Because the further I got into "the real world" the easier I found it to find, make and keep friends. So far my eldest has not had any social problems, but this year DD2 is visibly becoming steadily more isolated and it is sad. And yet also comforting to know that even if it is not at school she WILL find people she can bond with in time.