wits end with pre-teen

Yes, I’ve actually taken him in the past but he basically enjoys whatever it might be they do - drawing a picture, chatting about his interests, playing with lego whatever and that’s it - he never goes beyond to talk about anything that might be upsetting him. Like if asked if he has any worries or however it might be asked that he would like to discuss his answer is something like “yeah, it worried me that in X film X happened” (If that makes sense… he keeps it to fiction as if he can’t differentiate that the question was about reality and he enjoys the chat but obviously misses the point of the session) he does exactly the same when I try to ask him

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