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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 11:19:03 EST
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- From: Daniel Mont <D6M@CORNELLA.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: A Little Help From My Friends
- In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:10:58 CST from <GOLEM@UKANVM>
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- >
- >Why do you think he would have been hurt if he hadn't been invited? Is he
- >aware of things like parties, and of whether or not he's invited? I wasn't
- >at his age. Somehow my mother always knew that classmates were having
- >birthday parties and that I had been invited to them, but if she hadn't
- >told me, "You're going to Nancy's birthday party this Sunday," I never
- >would have known about it. I certainly wouldn't have picked up on it from
- >the other kids at school! As an adult, I usually find being invited to
-
- I don't think Alex would have known the party existed if he hadn't
- been told about it. He doesn't pick up on things like that. But, when
- Simon is invited to a party or a friend's house Alex gets upset (though
- not extremely so) that he has not been invited by one of his "friends",
- though these friends are always unnamed.
-
- And yes, we are planning to ask one boy that he sees somewhat regularly
- (the son of a friend of ours) to go bowling. There has never been
- any negative friction between the two, and they recently had a good
- time taking turns playing a computer game together.
-