Build A Social Life That Works For You

"A big WIN for G – yesterday he rode his bike for hours in the neighborhoods around where we are living in Denver.  A boy says hi as he was riding by and.... drumroll.... G STOPPED AND HAD A CONVERSATION WITH HIM! He told me the boys name was J, he’ll be going to G's school next year in the same grade and also likes Rubik's cubes. I asked him what he would have done last summer if a boy said hi as he was riding by and G said he would have kept looking straight ahead and rode faster to get away. This demonstrates how much he gained from PEERS®!!! THANK YOU! I was thrilled when he told me, especially because it seemed normal to him now and wasn’t a big deal!!!" 

-Parent of a teen who graduated from Unified PEERS® Programs

"D is doing really well. I think the PEERS® work really did a lot for him. He is more confident and makes plans with others. He even went to Homecoming at another school with four friends this fall. He had a great time. It was so awesome because at a dance in 8th grade, he had a panic attack." 

-Parent of a teen who graduated from Unified PEERS® Programs

“I used to think people didn’t like me. Nobody wanted to talk to me at my old school. I tried to make friends at first… but I didn’t know I was doing it wrong. I didn’t know what to say. I’d kind of stand there and they wouldn’t say anything, …and they’d look at me like I was weird. Then I just stopped trying. I used to cry about it, too. But now I know how to talk to people. I just find stuff that we like and talk about that. Like when they were talking about Twilight that day, I was like, ‘I can talk about that.’ So I did…and then they starting asking me questions. Now I know that’s how it works…that’s how you make friends.” 

-Socially anxious 14 year-old who completed PEERS®

(from the book, The Science of Making Friends)