- Difficulty making/maintaining friendships
- Lacks friends/companions
- Reduced confidence in groups
- Difficulty following conversation between several people
- Inappropriate behaviours
- Inability to gain attention from others in appropriate ways
- Difficulty sharing/turn-taking
- Difficulty playing rule based games
- Poor eye contact
- Often in shell/difficult to gain attention
- Obsessional/repetitive play/conversation
- Boisterous/heavy-handed play
- Poor imaginative/creative play
- Difficulty interacting with peers of own age, tends to play with younger children/adults
- Difficulty in initiating constructive play
- Poor empathy
- Poor listening skills
- Reduced desire to interact with others
- Over friendliness
- Poor respect for personal space/boundaries
- Reduced affection
- Dislikes being held/cuddled
- Prefers to be in own company
- Indifferent to being liked
- Indifferent if parents leave
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