Joined: 2 Mar 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 1,904 Location: Cave Spring GA USA
07 Feb 2007, 6:55 pm
As with the person above me I have a lot of friends online but offline I don't have people really I can consider friends. To be out with it I guess I don't really know how to know when I have friends. Because I'm shy.
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Perhaps 17 years ago when I first went to college. . Before that, perhaps 3rd grade, which was 30 years ago. My second stint in college, I didn't make any friends and during the second semester, I didn't have one f*****g conversation with anyone. f*****g loser.
Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Age: 49 Gender: Female Posts: 8,601 Location: Hants, Uk
23 Feb 2007, 4:06 pm
I cannot remember. I have had online friends, but to be honest, I generally avoid the word 'friend' as it seems a foolish word to me. Everyone has a different definition of it, and no-one could ever fit my definition...so I not longer have what I would consider 'friends'. I have people I talk to, I have people who know me a little and who I know a little.
It has only been three years for me. I lost the last of my childhood friends to the pursuit of an interest. I stopped leaving the house, and my friend stopped coming over to see me. The problem for me is that I wasn't much of a friend to others although I had three fairly strong friendships at one point. I wanted to build that friendship back up after a year or so but I felt it was too late for that to happen. The worst thing about it is I cannot make myself care too much about losing those friendships. Those were my exact thoughts, and this was before my diagnosis with AS. I felt like I should care more, but I was still absorbed with the same interest and cared very little about it.
I've had real world friends all my life, though I moved from my first home at a young age and so my local friends have only known me for five years, at most. But even though I have no really old friends, I probably have more friends than most others in the seventh grade, and I'm certainly one of the most popular AS kids in the school.
I have no clue why there are so many people on this site who are all "omg i have no friends everyone hates me boo hoo". No person in the world is so hated that they can't even get one friend.
Joined: 9 May 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 1,448 Location: Victoria, BC
10 Mar 2007, 12:42 am
I'll probably be doing something with one this Sunday. He's great. probably an NT, but he's certainly not normal ^_^. He has a PhD in Philosophy. I'm also about the only person he can talk to about this stuff.
He's also going to be in the upcoming D&D game I'm planning. (It'll be over IM)
About 3 years, maybe longer. My wife was my best friend - but I had other people that I would game with. Now, I do chat with my colleagues, but none of it feels like real friendship.