how many friends do you have?

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I have very few friends as there doesn't seem to be anyone wanting to talk to me.

Erik

My husband is my only RL friend. I used to have a few more, but I don't keep in touch when I move. I do have some very good online friends - people with whom I feel close and can ask for advice from. My husband is a lot more social - he has several current friends as well as being in touch with a few people he had been close with in the past.

I have 7 or 8 close friends, and probably a significant number of acquaintainces.

Only one of my close friends lives in the same city as me (Actually she lives in the flat under my house), and most of the rest live about an hour and a half north, so I often go up there.

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is there anyone who lives near me who wants to be my friend? i'm debonair, witty and charming

Not unless you count manchester as close

My simple and straightforward answer would be one.

My longer and slightly more whiny answer would be, "I wish I knew her better or had that bond that friendships are supposed to have. I like her a lot, but I will probably be too lazy to contact her as soon as I go off to college, just as I have done with everyone else I did not intentionally drift away from because they angered or frightened me. Hmm, come to think of it, there was that unusually polite Hume from Final Fantasy XI, to whom I forgot to bid farewell before leaving the game...I wonder if he still remembers that I existed, or if he thinks I abandoned him on purpose." Oh, well. This kind of thing is what the media is for--to help people to follow along in supposedly meaningful relationships while not requiring any effort on their own part. Or...actually...never mind. I am getting tired and long-winded because my body desires sleep more than my mind desires expression.

Things for me have been downhill ever since my teenage years (I'm 21 now). I had a lot more friends when I was around 16 years of age.

Over the years though, I've had online friends who've morphed into real life friends and I've had real life friends who morphed into online friends. If it wasn't for the net, I probably wouldn't have had all those friends that I had at 16. For some reason I'm just not meeting so many people online these days and the people I do meet are being turned off for some reason.

Then there's friends my age and friends who aren't my age, anyone else have those? For example, I sometimes get on better with people twice my age than people who are around my own age. For example, I worked for a small business when I was 16, they sold off though I kept in contact with the owner and we met up to discuss a business proposal and just to have lunch every now and then. My dad died (by this time I was 17) so he helped me move houses back to my mum's place and even run some network cables under the house. He then started having me over for dinner with his wife and 3 y/o son. More recently he moved back to New Zealand so I went and stayed with them, while exploring both islands of NZ on my own. I'd call him a good friend, but not the 'normal' same age friends that people typically have.

At least two same age friends came along to my dad's funeral which was very comforting at the time. Though these same two people aren't really interesting in seeing me anymore. Not many people are. As for who qualifies as a friend, I generally define it as someone who we both make an effort to catch up with every now again and get on reasonably well. People who I see at work/school who I wouldn't see otherwise don't really qualify though this did get me by for 2 years of senior secondary college (I went to a new school, before that I had no friends at school).

Though there is some hope. First there's one person met on WP who lives nearby so we'll probably meet up. Also there's this NT girl I met off the net just a month ago for coffee and it seems she didn't find me to be a freak, so we'll probably catch up again soon. Been trying to revive contact with some other old friends but so far it hasn't been so successful.

Probably more than one! There seem to be a few of us from Melbourne now.

As for my friends... well I have a few, but I don't see them very often.

Friends, maybe four, friends that I see more than ten or twenty hours a year, zero.

Yay more friends. Actually there are a few AS social groups in Melbourne. I just stopped slack and stopped going to them. But then that's the thing as well, if you're only seeing people at a social group it has more of an acquaintance feeling. But there's one which is fairly big and open to anyone which is part of ASSN. There was another one which was part of Autism Victoria, which they like to keep small and stuff, I guess I'd better go to it soon though before they kick me out.

Yayness! I just got myself affiliated with the adult group of ASSN: went for my first meet on Thursday! You should come along! And I was thinking of checking out Autism Victoria too! Woo hoo woot yay weeeeeeeee!! !

Yeah I went to one of those groups once and... um.. never went again.

They keep sending me the e-mails of when they're meeting up, however. The locations are usually a pain to get to though, so I haven't bothered.

Its run by some guy called Colin something? Not sure if thats the same group you are talking about...

I have 3 extremely close friends, 5 close friends, 4 people who i know, and i would call friends, but arent my favorites. and like 1-3 peripheral aquiantances which are close enough.

Then i have about 400 people who know me, would let me into their group and be glad to have me who i have no idea who they are. Cause im a popular little weirdo.

Ah yep that's the ASSN group.

I have one real freind, (over 20 years), and many acquaintances, some of which I don't really recognise ,and wind up asking where I know them from.

I have about 4 really good friends, and 1 of these I would even call a best friend... even though I don't like making that distinction. 1 of my really good friends is also my Cousin, who I pretty much know all my friends through. Outside of those, I know 4-6 other people I would call friends, I also know them through my Cousin.

Whats great about my friends, and probably what keeps me from being loney like other Aspies, is that every friday we try to do something together. Its usually just playing Video Games, or some Board Games, or RPGs... buts always something. And this has been going on for about 5 years now, at least since I have been around the group. This is just enough social interaction for me... I can't handle too much, but a little is nice... and this works great.

I also do stuff with one Uncle who I would call a friend, above and beyond our family association.

Two co-workers I would call friends, but just barely... I don't know if I'll keep in touch with them after this Job. And they find me quite odd, but sometimes my oddness is ammusing to them.

I don't have any friends I keep in touch with from High School, and I didn't really interact with them outside of school anyways. I rarely make an effort to push a friendship, to do stuff outside the enviroment where the first socialization occurs. Thats probably what makes this implyed Friday night stuff so great, I never have to plan for things to happen... it just always does