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No one is perfect at making friends. But many people across different types of neurodivergences may find it harder. They might feel awkward around people, maybe they say the wrong thing at the wrong time, or are haunted by a rejection sensitivity cultivated by years of struggling to socialize with a learning difference. This experience may drive many neurodivergent individuals away from socializing, causing them to brand themselves unfit for friendship. But this couldn't be further from the truth. There are brain-based reasons why friendship can feel less intuitive for neurodivergent adults. Weaknesses in the parts of the brain that control executive functioning skills make it harder to be social. Executive function is the brain's management system controls a hub of skills including memory, organization, planning, self regulation and the ability to modify behavior in response to others, which means the way neurodiverse individuals experience social bonding and connection is vastly different. The real issue is that there's never before been a resource written for the neurodiverse individual in mind. Until Now. Social emotional learning expert, Caroline Maguire knows firsthand how difficult it is to make and sustain friendships as a neurodiverse adult. With Friendship Skills for the Neurodivergent, she sheds a light as to how and why Neurodivergent adults experience friendship differently and provides an accessible, step-by-step guide for neurodiverse adults to navigate these differences.

Broken into three parts: 1.How friendship works 2.How to find your people 3.How connecting will get you in motion

Readers will feel less alone and have the tools to understand the unique way they can approach friendship to create lasting connections that work