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About This Book
Making friends is a skill like any other-there are rules to follow, ways to measure your progress, and reasons why some people are better at it than others. Although it may seem like this skill comes naturally to those who don''t have Asperger''s disorder, nonverbal learning disorder (NLD), or other problems relating to others, the reality is that even the most popular people must constantly hone their abilities in order to make new friends and keep the friends they already have. This workbook includes forty activities you can do to recognize and use your unique strengths, understand the unspoken rules behind how people relate to each other, and improve your social skills.
After completing the activities in this workbook, you will discover that you can get along with others and build friendships despite the challenges you face. All you need is the confidence to be yourself while still keeping the feelings of others in mind.
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Table of contents
- introduction
- 1. comic-strip stories
- 2. things that make me happy
- 3. things that make me worry
- 4. things that make me angry
- 5. shades of anger
- 6. where do I feel these feelings?
- 7. paint-chip key chain
- 8. different points of view
- 9. something about myself Iâll never change and something Iâd like to change
- 10. whatâs different about my brain?
- 11. feelings checklist
- 12. do you lose it?
- 13. when I am angry
- 14. when you pretend things donât bother you
- 15. when plans change
- 16. changing the plan in your head
- 17. cool-down tools: a safe place
- 18. cool-down tools: deep breaths
- 19. cool-down tools: drawing and writing
- 20. cool-down tools: things that make me happy
- 21. go with the flow
- 22. be prepared
- 23. gathering and processing social information
- 24. self-talk
- 25. creating new self-talk
- 26. using positive self-talk
- 27. rules
- 28. the unwritten rules of life
- 29. friendship equations
- 30. being aware
- 31. conversation skills
- 32. developing a filter
- 33. choosing your friends
- 34. levels of friendship
- 35. do you get stuck?
- 36. how to get unstuck
- 37. shades of gray
- 38. choosing what to wear
- 39. how Iâve changed
- 40. whatâs next?