Gift for a teenager girl

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My cousin is going to be 13 years old later in the year. What is a good gift to give to a new teen girl? I don't want to give her food items. She lives in another state, so I will most likely order online. I don't want to give flowers, since that is just plain.

Is she an aspie or nt?

If nt, most nt girls LOVE to go to the mall and shop. By 13 most would prefer to buy something for themselves - so either a gift card or $$.

If aspie - something regarding special interest.

I don't think she is an aspie. She doesn't show signs of it. Her brother does have some disability: ADD/LD. Maybe some autism.

Books.

12 is a very tricky age with girls and it's easy to getstuff wrong. I would go with $$. I have a teenager and from about 12 on, unless you give him the specific thing he wants, he'd rather buy what he wants. Suprises aren't generally positivly regarded.

That said, I did buy him some clothes for Christmas that were OK - but he's a guy and doesn't like clothes shopping. Most girls could do that for days on end.

The other thing that 13 y/o girls love is manacures and pedicures - you could always give her a gift certificate for that.

Send her a gift card or cash. That way she can spend the money on what she wants too. But if you go with the gift card try to make it to somewhere that she'll have access to store wise.

Amazon has a terrific gift card that can be used online and sent directly to the parent's email address. It offers a lot of flexibility in that it can be used for books, clothes, music, etc. Another idea - offer a magazine subscription. You could get a card to Magazines.com, also deliverable via email.

Make sure whatever it is, it gets vetted by the parents first - some magazines that teen girls like are not necessarily things parents want them to have.

CDs and books. A little communication with the parents about her interests would be useful. I would love it if someone I didn't see often bought me a book about Simone de Beauvoir for my birthday or something like that. Lots better than money, even if I could spend it on whatever I liked.

For the record- not all girls like manicures/pampering stuff. I would probably keep putting off having to use it until the voucher expired. I am not interested in that kind of thing at all, and wasn't at 13 either. No use saying stuff like 'oh well, however weird they are, a 13 year old girl will like a manicure if nothing else'. Just saying

I would recommend a gift credit card, the one that has a Visa or MasterCard logo and a number on the front. It has a more choices that a store gift card, plus the grown-up factor of having a card that looks like a real credit card. Unless, of course, the teenage girl in question already has a Visa Buxx or something similar, then those gift credit cards won't have the same novelty factor. They can be used by people under 18; I checked when buying one for a relative who's a teenager. She loved the card; don't know what she spent it on, though.

Just saying, I didn't say - "no matter how weird they are". I'm not sure if "just sayin'" is supposed to soften insults, but at least for me it didn't really work.

You are correct not all girls like that stuff. However, I am extremely involved at the high school that my NT son goes to, and most of the girls would be thrilled. That may be a matter of where they live and what the kids are doing. Also as I think about it, if the teen is an aspie, the sensory issues may exclude this as a prefrence.