Start of Lacrosse Season, Another Opportunity to Make Friends

And will she?  Sometimes she shoots herself in the foot by deciding ahead of time that she won't be able to relate to anyone, they won't accept her, they look at her weirdly, etc.  There may be some of this, but we think that a lot of the time she makes things harder for herself by putting up a lot of defenses early and by the fact that she misinterprets other's facial expressions, body language.  Social skills don't come easy for her at all.  Most bp kids really struggle to make and keep friends.  She hasn't had a close friend in over five years.  Her jealousy over her older sister's uncanny ability to make and keep dozens of friends, seemingly every month, grows more intense every year.  She has one potentially good friend through lacrosse, but it seems like their schedules outside of lacrosse are very conflicting.  Sometimes I wonder if we should let Caroline go to public school just for the bigness of the potential pool of friends, but then again that would bring so many new problems as well.  Helping her to navigate all of the hazards found in a large public high school might be more than I could handle.  I read so much on the CABF website from other parents about the endless and very scary problems of bp teens in public high schools that I am loathe to enter into that fray.