When did you make your first friend(s)?

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Sorry, maybe I was confusing. I don't consider tolerating your presence because of your siblings to be a definition of friendship. In my previous post, when I said I was 12 when I found someone whose presence I enjoyed and who enjoyed mine, that was the first person I really considered to be a friend.

I don't think that definition is superficial because the reasons for enjoying someone's presence can be as complex as you like. At 12, I cared about having someone who liked computers as much as I did and didn't make fun of me. At 17, I cared about having someone who embodied certain moral traits, and who was in love with existence. Now, I also look for things like wisdom and respect, as well as some stuff that's too complex and personal to go into here.

When I was in 5th grade, I made friends with people in my neighborhood.

I was about 7 or 8 when I made my first real friend. We would work on our math problems together and play interesting games that no one else understood. Looking back, he might have also been slightly aspie.

I also have online friends, both here (obviously!) and from other sites. And I have a few friends from school and church. Most of them are quieter and usually some of the smart kids. One of my friends from swim team is extremely outgoing and a bit of a drama queen (literally), but we seem to get along just fine.

I have a friend on my crosscountry team that likes soap operas; but, I like her because she is such tough runner, and is very nice. I'm still not sure what a drama queen is, though. Is it a person who gets emotional over a lot of things?

My first true friend was a girl that lived a couple of houses down from my grandmother's. I was six and she was four years old when we met but to me, the age difference didn't matter one bit. To this day, after we've grown up and she's had two children and married and I've graduated college, we're still friends.

Yes, sort of, a drama queen tends to make a big deal out of things that don't really matter that much. Sorry for the confusion. I seemed to have learned a lot of random phrases from my NT younger sister.

I've actually had friends ever since I was three. I think it was mainly because she just happened to be a really close neighbor and my mom was friends with her mom. My first best friend was kindergarten, though. She moved two years later. I went friendless for a long time. Never had as good of a friend as her, though.

I was thirteen when I made my first real friends, and fifteen when I started having a “social life” (not that I’ve ever really had much of a one).

I made my first friend when I was five. Her mom was friends with my mom, and that's how I met.

I made my first friend when I was about 16.

I made my first friends in Pre-School. They were both boys and I was "One of the Guys". Stephen and I were five and Craig was four. All three of us are on the Spetrum. It's strange how that happened.

Hey,I made 2 new friends!With the girl it was easy but the boy was knida hard.Oh,well...

-SpaceCase

I can honestly say that I actually became someone's freind through my own will for the first time last week. I guess their's a first for everything!

I have a hard time defining the term 'friend', and differing it with 'acquaintance'. Also with differing it with 'people who feel sorry for you' and 'people who are using you'.

But if you were to really put me on the spot I'd say I have currently two real friends here in college and two real friends back at home. When I first made real friends I don't know

Lol,I remember how I became friends w/ JJ-chan.It was during a tornado watch and we had to go into the hall to wait it out.JJ-chan just so happened to be beside me,and me and him got to talking about alians.From that day on we were friends.

-SpaceCase

i think i made my 1st real friend when i was in 1st grade but i think that was because he had i crush on me( once he stole his mom jewlery and gave it to me) and then i made another in 4th grade but school was hell so when we feel out of contact i had no one till 8th grade and i had one really good friend and a few random ones then i went in to high school and i became the alph female in my group so now i have a lot of friends

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