How Many Friends Do You Have?

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I have about 6 friends.

About 5 that I actually see, and the rest Xbox and Facebook friends

2 real friends.
& quite a few people i'm friendly with.

I'm friendly with a lot of people, but I prefer my close circle of friends which is approximately 3-7 people depending on the gathering... some I'm closer to than others. I don't know any adults with AS in "real life".

As far as friends, I have maybe 3 or 4 people that I could consider friends, that I can trust. Maybe more, it depends on how much you have to trust someone before they are considered a friend. It's increasingly harder to find friends that can be trusted because there is more and more incentive to throw people under the bus for stupid reasons, and the list of reasons grows every year. I live in a society where success is measured by how many people you can screw, so its no surprise that the most successful people are the people with the least amount of friends. We are all about success in the United States, not friends. Success is measured in dollars with no interest in making cents.

I have a good number of acquintances, I dont personally know how many. For me to consider someone an acquintance is someone I see frequently enough, say hi to and and talk to here and there, so its pretty loose and acquintances come and go easily, a lot of times they'll come in to my life loosely even if they've left previously. As for friends, around 12ish counting RL and online friends. However I have stricter classifications for online friends cause Ive had a lot that come and go. If we were to loosen those classifications then my # of friends goes up to around 16ish. My friend breakdown comes down to.

1 close RL NT friend
3 average RL NT friends
4 casual RL NT friends,
1 casual aspie friend

equals 9 RL friends

1 close online NT friend
2 average online/RL NT friends, I met these 2 online but we've met up in person a good # of times, so there kinda RL by now, tho I mostly communicate online and over the phone
2 casual NT online friends
2 casual aspie online friends

equals 7 friends I met online, ive met a few of them offline

so plenty of looser casual friendships, but I think thats how things are a lotta of the times for people

0 aspie friends.

1 autistic acquaintance

2 NT friends

6 or so NT acquaintances, but I don't see some of these people all that often

No AS friends whatsoever, I have never even met one.

NT friends (these aren't close friends I depend on), aroundabout 10. These are people I could go up to and ask to go somewhere with. I don't, of course. I wait for them to ask me. If I didn't go to school, I would hardly see them. I don't have any online friends. I had one once, but that's gone now. I'm quite happy like this, but I would stop seeing them all if I could just have one very good friend.

Got a girlfriend who I spend almost all my spare time with, she is my best friend
I have a two guys I count as close, reliable friends. I would say that in total I have around 6 or 7 friends and a lot of acquaintances. I don't put much effort into seeing anybody anymore though, outside of my girlfriend and my two closest friends

I have 6 friends. 3 of them are NT, 2 are aspies and one's an autie.

3 Close NT Friends
4-5 Casual NT Acquaintances

No AS friends that I know about. Although one of my close friends displays a lot of the signs of AS.

I have a couple friends, but quite a few acquaintances. I've recently found out that what I call an acquaintance others call a friend they don't talk to much.

More than 12 I think...I have 5 friends that drive the same car, 2 friends that are married, then all the various friends I've made over the years.

zero friends in my hometown. I imagine it must make life a lot less painful to have a least one person you can call and go do something with. It'd be great just to take the edge off once in a while.

I have one friend

None. *cry*