No such thing as friends

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Yeah, for some reason I find that all of the people I can get more confortable talking with are all druggies or eventually evolve into ones. I have recently gotten into contact with two old friends from middle school. One lives in Seattle and another in Philly, they both do drugs. And one just kept trying to tell me which ones to take first and all this crap. I am fine if they take drugs. Its their body and they can do whatever when I am not there. But don't try to sell me on it when I have absolutely no intrest in it and I just shut down in the conversation. It honestly gets really boring. I have known for a long time that if I ever took drugs I would go crazy. Sometimes it seems I am high all my own my head just goes into overdrive and a few times people have asked me if I were drunk or high on something when I was in that state in public. So imagine if I actually took drugs I would be an absolute train wreck.

But even if they do drugs, but they still can carry on a conversation with me without anything to do with drugs, I am fine.

I used to get accused of that, too when I was younger. People would say, what are you on? Can I have some? And I would say, "No, it's a Natural high!"

You are smart to know yourself so well, Aysmptotes. I did try marijuana in my twenties, and it made me really freak out. I got extremely paranoid. So it wasn't hard to avoid, after that!

I think we, especially as young adults, tend to attract bizarre folks with various mental problems who want to be our friends. Not sure why that is, but it certainly sucks, especially since we have such a hard time reading people's intentions. Jakasta, stay far away from this one! She sounds like nothing but trouble. In the future, concentrate on determining whether or not a person is mentally/emotionally stable before you even consider them as a potential friend. I finally learned to do this about 7 years ago, and now I have a small group of friends I feel good about. It took a while to weed out the emotional vampires, but it was worth it.

All I ever meet are people with "issues" like that, and when I complain to my "friends" about their issues, they give me the doe-eyed Nancy Pelosi look (aka, the "flesh rotting off my skull" look), and say in typical brainwashed fashion "but we ALL have problems!"

And why do the girls that have these problems always have to have some kind of eating disorder, or are just plain fat?

What about the Lisa Murkouski(sp?) look. Alaska's (one of my) Senator. I always get creeped out by her big bug eyes. The other day I was invited to her birthday party. Yeah... sure... right... no.

But I get that too alot. I would try to tell my friend about something that bothers me and she would say "Oh that's normal! There is nothing wrong with your brain." Um... yeah, well I haven't told her about my AS yet but yeah, she was totally right about that statement... not. Well not that there is anything wrong with having AS just I knew my thought process wasn't completely normal.

It goes beyond simple problems with people understanding me, though. Even my PARENTS interrupt me whenever I begin to speak, force me to believe exactly what they believe (if I have so much as a shred of free will, they freak out... and I'm 24!), and to top it off, they let my sisters practically get away with murder.

It's particularly bad in this state (Oregon). All I've been running into are meth users, trailer trash, trailer trash meth users, and really REALLY unstable liberals. The whole state is full of liars.

Are there any ways I can recognize that people are lying to me, or just trying to screw me over? Well, I should rephrase... are there any other ways to tell if I'm being lied to other than "their lips are moving"?