People of Aspergers - Do you need to have friends/partner or

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are you not too bothered?

loneliness wears me down to the bone.

Not to be all emo about it, which I am.

I would like to have one good friend who I either lived with or saw regularly. Not necessarily a partner, although I've been thinking recently that I would like to be in a relationship again. I've been alone for the last few years, and it's meant I have been less stressed, but I have become more lonely over the last year or so. But I don't think the person I am looking for exists.

I don't have a great need for lots of friends, as they take an awful lot of energy from me. But one person who knows me very well, and who I know very well, that would be good.

I have a girlfriend who supports my difficulties, we live together. She is away on business for 1 week, and as much as I hate to admit it I actually feel like we're not even dating anymore and that she's not in my life anymore like i've just forgotten about her and have been spending all my time alone in the apartment.

I enjoy solitude. But solitude is not the same as being alone. I still need human contact.

I do like to have a fair amount of social interaction, a friend or two amongst good acquaintances, though prefer to be left alone a lot of the time.
Being lonely is somewhat depressing for me.

I don't really need friends but a partner I needed so I could have kids. I didn't want to be a single mother and hope I never will be.

But I don't mind spending time with family. When my parents come to town, I like to be with them.

I need friends for the option of hanging out, but usually I just want to read a book or read on the Internet or write things, and it's hard to do that with someone else.

I feel numb and emotionless and non-existent since the end of my 3 year engagement.

I don't know what to do with myself, or even if I want to be at all.

I suffer from loneliness but I also can't stand being around people.

I like to be alone sometimes, but need human contact, too.
Strangely enough, I need to be around my wife more than she wants to be around me!
I have more need of someone to cling to than she does...

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An Asperger's man who has Autism Spectrum Disorder level 1- mild, with a sprinkling of Synesthesia.

The best friend I ever had was when a roommate was working out of town all week and came home every weekend. We went out and had fun all weekend but by the time I was sick of being around someone 24/7 he was gone back to work. When that ended I got a single apartment and haven't had a roommate since.

I only feel lonely when the world makes me feel like someone else should be there. I get tired of the endless questions about when I am going to start dating or other talk about "finding the right person". Also there are a lot of activities I enjoy alone but people seem to think it weird. Like going to restaurants for dinner or going to the movies. One of my passions is food/cooking but getting a table for one at prime dinner time, I have learned, is a weird thing to do.

I always saw myself with a family, but don't know how to get there and I'm only recently understanding why.

I need friends, but not partners, so I voted "sometimes".

I voted yes. Been alone for so long now, it sucks. I don't need many friends. I could even go as far as saying I really only need one. Like Wilson and House friendship. :/