Do you need people in your life?

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Many people with ASD are independent and value their alone time. I am not one of them. I need to have a companion with me at all times. And although I have a lovely boyfriend, we only see each other a couple times a week and I feel alone most of the time. I also need someone to help me, so there's a practical as well as emotional concern. Everything is hard for me to manage, from putting together my taxes to getting a person to come out and install an internet connection, and so far I have just put those things off because I can't handle them. But I don't want to be a burden on my companion and partner. It's kind of an unsolvable conundrum.

Yes I've always needed people in my life. It's not just the comforting feeling of having friends, though that's very important. It's also the practical need. Generally speaking humans do better in groups than alone. Mutual protection and assistance.

I need people in my life. There's a clubhouse that I go to most days. I also have outreach as well. I'm just one of those types who needs people.

I'm not really sure.

I don't rely on them that's for sure.
Rarely ever brought me any joy.


The only need I can sense from myself ever needing others is familiarity, a platform or a rapport, an attachment and existential stability that came with it.

It doesn't matter if they're even there at all, as long as they're certainly alive somewhere and will welcome me if I ever asked.


But that's it, really.
I hope to outgrow needing any attachment.

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I can go months without seeing anyone but my partner, as we live in the middle of a forest.
I'm usually happy with this unless I have a current obsession. (Potential or new lover)
I'm alone with the dogs this month...but I have a new obsession.
(Perhaps Luckily) I don't have her phone number.

Sometimes, but it comes and goes.

I suspect that I need people more than I think I do. I do enjoy engaging in special interests on my own and am never bored. Still, I get lonely sometimes.

I need some people in my life, I really can't handle alot of people, I'm very happy with my online friends, my cat, my sister is ok, I have my nephew, but I want a boyfriend.

I used to live alone and I loved it. Everything I did was without input by others.

Circumstances changed though, and now I'm living with my ex who I still love very much. We just don't do well as a couple. I feel as though I have the best of both worlds - I still do what I like but I've always got someone to talk to should I need it.

My relationship style is to be glued together at all times. That's what I would like. But my boyfriend is more independent, and also, right now, I am so sick with my chronic fatigue that I feel I would not be able to be present for him even if he wanted to be with me all the time. I don't even feel that I can bring it up with him. He is very lovely and I'm lucky, I'm not complaining.