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It sounds like she might have Asperger’s syndrome. A really good book that might help her is improve your social skills by Daniel Wendell. Also, she might take it better if you talk to her about specific events rather than just saying she needs to improve her listening skills out of a context. Like if you say something like “ when I mentioned my lab tests, I was actually worried about it and hoping you would ask me more so that I would have the chance to express my concern “.

If you just say it in general she might not understand where this is coming from out of the blue and get defensive. Some people in my system have Asperger’s syndrome, so I have seen this happen ( them getting too defensive to listen when people make general statements about areas that they need to work on.

It sounds like you are being a great friend and very patient with her. I am very dyslexic so scrabble makes absolutely no sense to me. So I cannot really join that bit of the conversation but I am glad you got a score you can be proud of, congratulations