His first brush with flirting, lol

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My sister and I took our boys to the park/playground yesterday, my son J is AS and 10 and my nephew also a J is 5.
As we approached the park my sister and I headed towards the seats as the boys headed to the play equipment, nephew J to play my J to wander on the fringes (this is what usually happens). However yesterday was a whole new experience, lol. Maybe my J will now want to go back to the park again.
As I statred to say, my J had just stepped into the equipment area when 2 girls about his ages 10 or 11 asked him if he wanted to play tag. His response No I dont do that. Anyway I noticed that these girls were watching him as he was skimming the out skirts of the playground, after about 10 15 minutes the girls had approached him again. I was to far away to hear what was going on, he looked nervous but he wasnt leaving so I just sat back. For about the next 20 minutes the girls followed him around the various areas of the playground that I know my J feels comfortable with, they all then sat down and appeared to be talking friendly like. All three kids (the two girls and my J) got up and walked closer to where my sister and I were sitting, I called J over and asked him how he was doing. I noticed he had nearly chewed a hole threw the sleeve of his top and he looked a little nervous. He got really close to me and said"I'm not sure about these girls, they keep following me, they are making me nervous". I sugested to him if he was feeling nervous to just stay where I could see him and perhaps he could go find his cousin. Another 10 minutes went past and the girls followed J to another seat, I nearly went over there but nephew J beat me to it (nephew J is very out spoken and when needed very protective) all the kids got up again and this time the girls actually looked like they were going to go play on the equipment, my J came over to me and said " I think they have a crush on me". I so badly wanted to laugh. To my J this is a very foreign idea. I know other 10 year old boys that have been interested in girls for a while.
Anyway after another approx 15 minutes of playground wandering around J brought the girls over to me and I asked their names and ages etc, all the kids spent maybe a few minutes longer together then the girls had to check in with their parents some where over the other side of the park. The whole experience was a real eye opener and very entertaining from my perspective, my J kept going between being really nervous and curious at the same time. Any way I managed to get him alone for a few minutes, and I asked him if he was ok he said yes, he'd apparently said to the girls "You keep following me, it's like you have a crush on me or something! ( I told my sister what he said, she was laughing saying no way he didn't, but as we all know these kids say it as they see it) The girls said that perhaps one of them did, they asked him if he was already going out with someone, (don't know what he said to this) they asked him which one of them he liked his response was " well she has a nice voice and she (the other one) looks pretty" ha ha ha talk about keeping your options open and being very diplomatic. He said "mum, I think I was blurting, oops flirting with them". Oh my it was so hard not to laugh . I could tell he was so curious about the whole situation. The girls came back, and spent the remander of our time at the park, following my J around and hanging off his every word. You could imagin the thoughts that were going threw my head, I could see he was enjoying but yet still confussed by their attention.
When it was time to go, I collected J and we were walking away, the girls yelled out good bye J said yeah bye ( not really loud enough to be heard) I could hear them yelling "what, what did you say" but that was it, my J had moved on he didn't even turn around- he'd said his goodbye they were now a thing of the past.

Oh, gosh, lol, I am smiling ear to ear reading that one

My son really isn't interested in girls. There have been a few rumored to be interested in him over the years, but he tends to get this impatient expression on his face if it's brought up. Basically the same way he acts towards the young kids that used to follow him around because he has such a gift for game inventing, or because he did a brilliant magic act in the talent show (I call those boys his groupies ). He is tangentially friends with some pretty wonderful girls, though. Pretty, smart, AND one watches out for him at school, reporting to her mom when he isn't treated fairly (he doesn't seem to notice) who then tells me and the whole thing gets solved. But my son's best friend has a crush on that girl so I hope it's just kindness and not romantic (I do wonder sometimes) because then we'd have quite the triangle going on, lol. Oh the round-a-bouts of young romance!

Years ago when I was trying to teach my son to respect other people's private space and boundaries, and to pay attention to the signals that they may not want to be touched, I told him I was scared of what would happen when he dated, and that maybe I shouldn't let him date. Well, of course, THAT statement of mine he's remembered, and if we bring up girls at all he'll play it back to me, with a "I don't think I want to date anyway."

I'm torn between being happy we're dodging that bullit for now and disappointed in the fun that I'm missing.

So, I'll just enjoy your stories for now

Aww, that's sweet.

Well, I am sure I have AS, and I liked girls VERY early on. In fact one problem I had was that I didn't know when I was really supposed to start showing that I liked them. At 6yo, a psychiatrist figured that because I saw indian squaws in almost all of his ink blots that I must like girls. at least he didn't say anything about indians or feathers or breasts, so I guess I can be happy about that! But the odd thing is that he was right. My mother and I knew that, but THAT wasn't my problem. In fact, decades later, AS explains it ALL! BTW the inkblots seriously DID look like indian squaws. Humanoid, with protrusions like breasts, and a feather like appendage, what else was I to think?

I don't think that I ever had your sons "problem" though. 8-( In fact, I was SHOCKED when I found out, after the fact, that girls sometimes act HOSTILE when they are interested. I DID have THAT problem. For a time, they had a biscuit commercial here where the father tells his daughter about how BOYS act that way. He uses the biscuit to illustrate(flaky outside, and soft inside). And she says "OHHHH, I get it!".

Oh well, I always liked girls(At least as long as I can remember any such feelings), but it got EXTREMELY strong around 13. If the same thing happens to your boy, WATCH OUT! He could go from a big disinterest to an obsession literally overnight.

He probably won't believe it, but you can explain to him that his feelings will probably change soon. He is at an age when it could happen any moment. With me, 13 was only the high point.

PrisonerSix,

It is DUMB, but some things that make me HATE some females also make them a bit endearing. I would LOVE a nice, caring woman that is logical, reasonable, honest, pretty and communicates clearly but, alas, they aren;t that common and most are taken. No offense to anyone if that comes out wrong.

That is so cute!

There is a little girl that I suspect has a crush on one of my sons. She talks to him a bit too much and "mothers" him a bit. He thinks she is absolutely awful! Bossy and "always telling him stuff" are his complaints. Poor girl. But there is a girl my son has taken notice of. She is very pretty and extremely quiet and soft spoken. I think that the girl who eventually wins my sons heart, will not be a talker!