Thanks everyone for your help. I really appreciate it.
School is a struggle for him. We were really lucky to have great teachers for him in K and 1st, and they made it work. Thank goodness for them.
His rigidity shows up at school, he always says that nobody will play with him. When I talk to him about it, he says that he wants to play a certain game but with no outs. The other kids don't want to play with no outs, so he just spends recess by himself. It's basically his way or the highway and that's why he spends a lot of time by himself at recess.
In addition, he has made his mind up that nobody likes him. Even when I see him playing with other kids and being happy, he will deny that it happened when I ask him about it later. He says he "tricked" the kid into playing with him and the kid doesn't like him. My son is such an unusual child.
I thought he was on the autism spectrum for years, but my husband is a pediatrician... he says no. The psych says he is not. The social group we take him to uses ABA and almost all of the kids there are on the spectrum. My son fits right in, so if he is not on the spectrum, he is a neighbor of the spectrum. lol
