I was there for a while, but DD (who wasn't really invited anyway) got fed up with the noise and started holding her hands over her ears, so I took her off to the park to play.
When I picked him up, I got the report that he did eventually come out when it was time for the presents, and played games after that.
DS has made great strides in his social skills, with years of social counseling at school and with a private counselor, but he is an Aspie and it's all uphill. I try to explain things in that way to him, but it's in one ear and out the other, and I'm not a lot of help because I don't do social very well myself. I can explain it, but I don't feel it -- I guess you'd say I get my socialization from book-learning!
Antsy, we have the same thing here, except the kids are all in the neighborhood -- just today, he's had a couple of friends in and out, and I keep having to send him back to his room to play with them because he tries to wander off to his computer or something, leaving his sister playing with his friends. I can't let friends hang out too long, because he starts getting cranky and fed up with company, and his hard-earned but fragile social skills go out the window.
