I feel like I am talking to Myself on this website

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Well lightening020 this is what I suggest. You find someone on this forum who lives somewhat closeby and is around your age and then you start trying to connect with that person, send them an email or something. Find out if there is an Aspie group near you.

I think I have a different definition of friend than most people on this thread. Basically if someone shares similar interests to me and is honest with me and I am honest with them, and we seem to recognize each other, then I consider that person a sort of friend, even if they are an amorphous, faceless kind of friend.

This is a big forum - so ... it makes it harder.

I tend to click on discussion and then click on my posts to see if anyone has responded.

and then I look at the posts since I was last on.

It takes awhile to get to know people - but it is nice to see familar people posting, even if I don't interact with them.

the avatar is a good idea.

I have been here for four years now.

I have not made any close friends here.

I have however met people I consider sort of... like a different level of friend. Like friendly acquaintance: People I enjoy talking to, and know relatively well from their writing.

But I don't recall many if any people here that I got to the stage of like back and forth emails or chats a lot and other things that usually happen with closer friendships online. I just enjoy the discussions and it's sort of like 'socializing lite' (as in, without the increased intensity that both makes friendships good, and is exhausting).

I've noticed yours!
I liked only "Something Wild" and "Hatebreeder"; I listened to "Follow the Reaper" twice and I could hardly listen to "Hate crew deathroll" once. Alexi was cool until he had met Kimberly...or am I wrong?..

I comment on topics that interest me and keep my expectations low. I don't really expect to make real-life friends on here simply because of the huge geographic disparities. I've noticed a dozen or so people I would voluntarily meet up with if they lived close by but none of them do.
I feel my input is frequently ignored, but not always, and I haven't been here long anyway.

MySelf sounds like a great name of a social website, hmmmm

I've only been a member a few days tho it is heartening to read of others that sound like me. The friends thing is tricky, I only ever feel alone when among others. You never know, you might gell with someone. Maybe you could find an aspi group near where you live? Tho I admit I am horrified at such encounters, NT or aspi I'd be uncertain. Good luck!

mmm i guess this is once again point what kind of music u like more is it older production or newer....me well first i thought that theyr newest album was really weird but then i found some good songs at it like "hellhounds on my tail" but my current favorite is "touch like a angel of dead" but if u like their guitar work u can look "passage to reaper" its 4mins pure guitar/bass work of alexi and roope

I too so far haven't made friends, but I'd put it more specifically: So far, I haven't felt connected with anyone. I haven't posted something and got a response where I think, yeah, that person understands. Basically, while I've gotten responses to some of my posts, I don't feel like I know anyone, or they know me.

But, that's okay. I'm not here to make friends. I'm not here to be understood. I'm here to come to understand more about austistic (including aspie) traits. Both for understanding myself, and understanding others I know.

It's because no one here actually exists.

I've gained and lost one supposed friendship and one relationship on WP.

That is all.

But, seeing as my other online social outlets are a failure, I may have to try harder with this place.

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Hey Ablomov, I just love your avatar. Yey, CLOUDS. One of my obsessions.

Well, it helps if you reply to other people's posts and keep reciprocating when possible in regard to conversation. But don't feel bad. I feel like I'm talking to myself most of the time, too. Occasionally I'll get a reply, but only by a new person to the forum. So, basically I show up here when I feel like venting. I also blog, too. Nobody reads that either, LOL.

I'm beginning to come to the same conclusion, except in reverse. I'm basically a figment of everyone's else's imagination. A ghost.

I feel like I'm talking to myself at a lot of places actually.