My son made a new friend today.

To parents of children who don't have Aspergers this probably will make no sense whatsoever. However, parents with Aspie (I learned this new abbreviation online this week I dig it) kids know that the friend making process is fraught with pitfalls. We went to Group today. Monkey Boy has been to Group 4 times, I've been to Group twice. It was a smaller Group today (people come when they can so it's an ever changing number). My son didn't want to go in (as usual) and informed me that Group is "boring and stupid", but he did make it out of the car with out a fight. PROGRESS! Turns out there was a new boy there that we hadn't seen the few times we have been so far. This new boy is a couple years older than Monkey Boy and the both of them were fast friends by the end of Group. He complains about Group but I think it has been so good for him. He's never in his life been able to really make friends (now that we have the diagnosis of Aspergers it all totally makes sense) and so it's an amazing thing to me to see him slowly starting to make social connections. Between the ADHD, the Aspergers and Depression he battles you can imagine that he's not high on the list of popular kids at school. Especially since he's only been at this particular school for 4 months. I am praying that with our continued attendence with Group that he will continue to open up to people and get even more positive reactions.