Do you have a social life at all?

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I'm just wondering if this is normal for younger aspies.

The first thing that come to my mind was this was an NT question directed at you.

Most auties do have social lives, but it's not as "pervasive', for lack of a better word, as NTs.

They claim we are "deprieved", but we are only depreived of knowledge about sex, sports and celebrities and artificiality.

I do have a social life, not a good one but it's some sort of social life. I do hope it gets more active though.

As a teenager I had no social life. People would approach me rarely and I never knew what to do, or even what their intent was. Now I have very little social life, and this is restricted pretty much to hanging out with family and occasional dinners with my professional handlers. It's not what other people have, but its enough!

I have a decent on online, xD. Like I go on Skype and I had a podcast and I used to do kareoke and stuff on Skype(I honestly don't know why I'm confident on Skype but not offline), and it owns, but offline, no xD. I think if I really wanted one I could but I wouldn't enjoy it anyway. I abandoned all my friends ages ago, now I just have lots acquaintances.
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Well, I do talk to a lot of people of MSN, forums and so on. Not what my father would call the 'social network', though.

(sorry to be posting this in the adolescent forum..I clicked on it from the main page)


I had a lot of catching up to do once I hit adolescence because I outgrew many of the more serious messed up issues I had as a child, but I had developed at a different rate than my peers and skipped over various rites of passage and whatnot...

I had friends because I really wanted friends...and I would be friends with anyone..this meant kids who were even more awkward than I was..or kids who didn't speak English...and then eventually...kids from my Gifted and Talented classes...I became pretty good friends with a few of them...but I did not quite understand the intricacies of their interactions with each other..and it sorta made me the third wheel because I was not socially as evolved as they were....they had private jokes and interactions that I was not a part of.
Also..because I was eccentric and intelligent and whatnot..I ended up hanging out with some of the eccentric older kids...but I was sort of an outcast for the same reasons and also because I was younger...still they tolerated my presence for some reason...

When I was 15 I joined a band...singing has been one of my main special interests since I was very little. I was the only person in the band still in high school. My parents were really lenient with me on this for some reason....I got away with all my awkwardness among these older guys...cause I was the only girl around most of the time and I was younger and I was expected to be different for these reasons...

I don't have a packed social life I only really go out with friends on a weekly basis but it does my nicely.

I could choose to go to parties if I really wanted to but I hate the thought of going to any parties at all.

I live with my family!

So, no, absolutely not. It's okay though.

NO!

I had an intellectual trip back to high school today, hanging out with some friends still in high school. The end result is I don't blame myself for not having a social life in high school (and still don't blame myself for being a long way away from one now). The amount of subtleties in a conversation between two high school students is insane. Lots and lots and lots of inside references, gossip about people I didn't go to high school with, obscure sexual references (I swear when I was fourteen, which wasn't long ago, the sex conversations were not this detailed), et cetera.

As for in college, still not much of one.

I have a few friends I hang out with, yes.

I never had a social life at high school at all. I never had any friends, nor a job, being severely bullied did not helped.

The only thing closest to a social life is going to university events and anime conventions.

I really have no social life. I do not know how to really interact with other teens. I have a few friends that i text message with, but i don't live near them so I can't go to the mall or something with them.
Otherwise, my little bro or mom have to make me do or go somewhere with other teens.