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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 174334" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>My son had a friend who sounds something like that. My son wasn't the most popular kid at school but the other boy had almost no friends. He was just seen as a tad odd. He had two considerably older siblings and was involved in sports to the point that they took up most of his time so most of his time was spent with adults. He was just socially awkward with kids his own age. He and my son shared a big interest in sports and played on a number of teams together. They also hung out together a lot, playing one-on-one variations of their favorite sports. But every single time the other boy thought dissing my son at school or to what he thought of as the in-crowd, he wouldn't hesitate a second. He'd throw my son under the bus for a bit of attention from a group of older jocks at the school or whomever my son might be feuding with at the moment. The only person who ever called that boy -- or responded when he called -- was my son. They'd spend hours playing some version of hockey they invented. From time to time my son still mentions how he liked playing those one-on-one games with that kid more than anything else...except maybe long bike trips. And yet he kid say anything about my son -- true or not -- to try to curry the favor of a group who never gave him the time of day.</p><p></p><p>I wonder if your son's friend is like my son's friend.</p><p></p><p>(Oddly, last we heard the boy had agoraphobia too.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 174334, member: 1498"] My son had a friend who sounds something like that. My son wasn't the most popular kid at school but the other boy had almost no friends. He was just seen as a tad odd. He had two considerably older siblings and was involved in sports to the point that they took up most of his time so most of his time was spent with adults. He was just socially awkward with kids his own age. He and my son shared a big interest in sports and played on a number of teams together. They also hung out together a lot, playing one-on-one variations of their favorite sports. But every single time the other boy thought dissing my son at school or to what he thought of as the in-crowd, he wouldn't hesitate a second. He'd throw my son under the bus for a bit of attention from a group of older jocks at the school or whomever my son might be feuding with at the moment. The only person who ever called that boy -- or responded when he called -- was my son. They'd spend hours playing some version of hockey they invented. From time to time my son still mentions how he liked playing those one-on-one games with that kid more than anything else...except maybe long bike trips. And yet he kid say anything about my son -- true or not -- to try to curry the favor of a group who never gave him the time of day. I wonder if your son's friend is like my son's friend. (Oddly, last we heard the boy had agoraphobia too.) [/QUOTE]
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