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lead in picking the activities he likes
best. He may not like any team sports,
and that’s OK. Help him look for activities
where he’ll meet other kids, but
also have plenty of his own space. Cultivate
the strengths of his disposition. If
his passions seem too solitary for your
taste, remember that even solo activities
like painting, engineering, or creative
writing can lead to communities of
fellow enthusiasts.
“I have known children who found
others,” says Dr. Miller, “by sharing important
interests: chess, elaborate roleplaying
games, even discussing deep interests
like math or history.” Rebecca
Wallace-Segall, who teaches creativewriting
workshops for kids and teens as
director of Writopia Lab in New York
City, says that the students who sign up
for her classes “are often not the kids
who are willing to talk for hours about
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