We have a fairly unrestricted media house, but I don't think that has anything to do with this and is probably distracting from the core social skills issue. Abstractly ironically, I find DS8 learns a lot of social skills in the emotionally easier laboratory of the living room watching, studying, and discussing television shows. Conversations like: "Do you think Bill the bully is going to like Bobby just because he has memorized all the songs that Bill likes?"