Just an anecdote so take it for what it is. Sharing as this is something that used to concern me. We home school our 9 year (autistic) child and he's more soci

Just an anecdote so take it for what it is. Sharing as this is something that used to concern me. We home school our 9 year (autistic) child and he's more socialable than I am (I was schooled prep to 12 at a relatively expensive private school). Just the other we were at a wildlife sanctuary and he ran off in the bird enclosure. I went to check up on him and found with one of the keepers feeding live worms to the birds (one of a number of interactions he had). Whereever we go, he has a tendency to walk up to workers and start conversations. I'm not sure how much his autism diagnosis is at play, but he does seem to lack a lot of the inhibition and intimidation in interacting that a lot of other students his age display.