Originally Posted by Mahagogo5
Originally Posted by aquinas
. If someone is put off by me and my son, who are outwardly normal, nice, clean-cut people showing interest in a friendship then, IMO, it's a red flag about them. Life is too short to miss opportunities for friendships because of social awkwardness. I've made some of my best friends in adulthood by striking up conversation spontaneously. Why should it be different for children? smile


I'm assuming this is in response to my comment. I think it is great that you are so easily able to make friends, not all of us are born with this gift, personally it is something I have working on my entire adult life and still struggle with. Please don't suggest that their is something wrong with folks who find it difficult to make small talk with people they don't know, it takes all types.

No, it wasn't in response to your comment. I was suggesting that if anyone we meet in person feels DS and I are a security threat or being inappropriate by being friendly, then they have some underlying issues, because we are so obviously non-threatening. My point was that I won't curtail general friendliness--or encourage DS to do so--on the expectation that someone might take offense at my overture, because it could result in lost opportunities that we'd have otherwise enjoyed absent the concern of how others might mis-perceive us.

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