Squishys the tricky thing with social skills is - sometimes the child actually IS delayed, or at least not advanced socially, but sometimes they are MORE advanced socially/empathicly and gets misunderstood. For example a gifted child might cry when they hear about an earthquake because they have more understanding of the tragedy than their age peers - but the crying is seen as "immature" rather than "advanced understanding and empathy".

It's tricky.