Making friends, what an interesting topic. I remember making friends while growing up. It had it's ups and downs. People with autism would be nervous or just be straight up brave and go make friends without hesitation.  From my experience it was both.

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Make sure they're hanging with good people that aren't a bad influence on them. Hopefully when the student gets older, he or she will know what type of people to be friends with and to keep a good friendship with them for both the student and the friend.

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Best friends are a different story. To autistic students they can either be equal in their eyes to their other friends or seem that they have more meaning to them because of their history of their friendship. To me everyone is equal and everyone knows that. I suggest if you do have a person or some people that are worth more to you than others, then keep it a secret to only yourself so you don't hurt other people's feelings. 

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Arguments and disagreements will happen to friendships especially to when an autistic student is involved, but it's not always their fault. It can be the other person's or both of their faults. Or just maybe there is no fault at all, but just some stupid little disagreement. The friend could be disagreeing with the autistic student on something and start an argument or it can be the other way around. 

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I remember some friendship breakups. Some were easy or hard to get over it. It just depends on how much of a friendship connection the student had with the person. If the student was friends with the other person for a short period of time then it'll most likely that they will get over the friendship breakup easily. But it's different to a person that the student has been friends with for a long time and is a best friend as well. It'll take a long time to get over it.

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My main advice to friendship goals to make it all balance between the student and the other person. Making sure that they both do things that they both love to do together. Who knows, they'll probably be friends forev