Love and romance for a seven year old?

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My seven year old son with autism seems to have a few girls who have crushes on him. One girl in his second grade class tried to get him to kiss her. Others seem to like that he hugs freely. He tends to get in trouble at school quite a bit. He also freely expresses affection. My wife and I are very careful that he wears fashionable clothing and that he goes to school clean.

I am not even sure if he understands what is going on. One Mom stated that he seemed to have a crush on her little girl. I thought, Wow that is great if it is true.

At what point did you discover that boys/girls are cute? When did you discover that a little boy or girl had a crush on you?

For me, I'm still waiting. I just don't experience attraction to other people, at least not yet. The only way I found out if someone had a crush on me was by being told by another person.

its pretty much the same situation with my son. so you think that the reason is that he hugs freely?
we were thinking that the reason is that son does not respond to usual stuff (is not very predictable) so girls have a hard time figuring him out and that is why they try a lot things. they are very manipulative however one of them is very free spirit and not clique-type at all.
Really not sure what is going on but like you I was very surprised to see two 6 yo holding hands and walking hugging. I didn't think we will have that additional stuff yet to deal with.

I think that adults and kids like him because he shows affection to everyone. He needs to hug people. He also enjoys the company of other children his own age. Still, he does not know how to engage in imaginative play. He also needs other kids to keep the play continuing. In general, he enjoys school. In fact, he seems more prone to experience depression during summer vacation.

I had my first crush in 5th grade

I remember my first crushes were 6 or 7 - David, Mark, and Christine...but alas, I was a bit too strange to be allowed to hug freely and on one ever had a crush on me, shame as Mark was son of my dad's drinking buddy so we were friends and remain distant but with feelings of affection towards each other today.

I had my first crush in 2nd grade.

my son also loves school and though he likes kids but only like a background in his world; he is not very attached to them; he changed schools without any complaint.
regading the imaginative play, just a couple a weeks ago we would aks what he is thinking about and it turns out that he has lots of different stories going around however because of his poor expressive language he has a hard time expressing them.