Todd489 wrote:
No but I had the opposite happen. Seems like every time I make friends they end up doing something cataclysmically ret*d and I don't ever want to see them again.
I had the exact same thing happen. I had a friend who I gave my phone number to, since it was the end of the year and everyone gave their phone numbers out to everyone in their yearbooks in middle school (lol). It was during the next 4 or so years that I realized I made a grave mistake...she kept calling me (even if I was gone) and calling me and calling me and calling me...you get the idea; sometimes even 12 or 15 times a day during the summers! I have Asperger's Syndrome, and even I know it's not okay to just keep calling someone until they answer the phone (unless it's an emergency). She had a little autism herself, and said that she was a little suicidal at one point in time (so I didn't know what to say to her and I didn't want to be hypocritical). I mean, I know that people sometimes call people that many times a day, but that's a mutual relationship! Then she kept wanting to talk for a couple hours and kept asking me or implying that she wanted to come over. I invited her the first few times that she asked, but then she always kept wanting to come over all the time and all she ever wanted to do was sit down and watch movies. Since she was the guest I let her do whatever she wanted to do to be polite, but then my head always hurt after watching 9 or 10 hours of movies, which isn't my thing usually. It went on for years and then I didn't want to be around her anymore; I felt really annoyed by her but I wasn't sure as to what to do or how she'd react to tell her that I didn't like her anymore or to stop calling me, or it would take many years to get over that disliking for calling too much. I didn't want to be hypocritical either because I didn't like being avoided or I didn't like it when I liked someone and they didn't like me back. But on the other hand I did truly make an effort and after awhile this calling all the time thing got very old. I'll just say that I'm glad I'm going off to college where she can't call me like that anymore.
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I'm 24 years old and live in WA State. I was diagnosed with Asperger's at 9. I received a BS in Psychology in 2011 and I intend to help people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders, either through research, application, or both. On the ?Pursuit of Aspieness?.