No friends and no relationships - totally alone in the world

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That's exactly how it is for me! I had a friend for a year and it ended recently. Now I'm paralyzed with depression, although before that friendship I was not at all depressed from being all alone. The delicate balance was totally disrupted.

friends are around, but they have to be found.

True, but the problem I have is that I need friends, but those people don't need me. If I show an interest in connecting with someone, I'm scared I'll be seen as creepy or too needy. Obviously doing nothing, means I don't make any progress at all. Well, at least I have my pets and my immediate family, so I still have something to be grateful for.

strive to not need people any more than they need you.

Yep, I'm in that same club :/

I am not completely alone and I have friends but most of them are on the spectrum or fall in the "Disability" community. The place of worship that I belong to, people are nice but seem to look at me as a little kid or act like I am invisible. Though I have expressed my concerns with the leader of this congregation, I am told that I need to "Work on my social skills, read the cues of others and behave in such a way that other's are comfortable. " I have also been told that I need to worry about how I treat others.

I connect with people at work and seemed to have made some with a few people but they are understanding because they are involved in the disability community.

Close friends? Yes but most have only lasted about 8 years or less but the relationships were toxic and they were only in my life until they finally meet their priority which most are more interested in marriage. So far my closest friend has been my mentor who was my bus driver one year during HS. When we talk on the phone, it's usually for three hours or more. In fact, she told me that most people aren't capable of being friends and that the ones who don't have low qualities.

I am friends with a president of my association because she's passionate about cats and movies just like I am and we bond too next to a sweet lady who works as a counselor and has three dogs that she walks.

read the cues of others and behave in such a way that other's are comfortable.

In other words, become NT.

I recently came up with my allegory based on an old short in a Sesame Street about how Apples and Oranges who can roll but find a pear who can't roll but rock.

The people at my congregation want me to, a pear, to roll and not rock. Well, I can roll, I just have to fall over and then roll in my own way.

Another allegory would be in "Kung Fu Panda" where Shifu is mad that that Po doesn't fit his mold for teaching Kung Fu. So Oogway teaches him but using a peachtree that "You may wish for an orange tree or an apple tree" but in the end that seed is going to grow up to see a peach one."

What's wrong with that? Having a disabled friend who is happy with whom they are is nice. Why do you want an NT friend?

I don't find anything wrong with that but rather, I would like a mix of friends who aren't disabled as well who are understanding but don't look at my weaknesses.

This is very true. It takes effort. Effort I can't make at the moment because my health is so bad. I was going to go out today, but I'm getting over a virus and I'm still not right. I just feel exhausted. I'm sick of being stuck in the house.

I just feel so alone. I've been ill for a couple of weeks and no one has been in touch (apart from my Mum) to find out if I'm still alive.

I do hope you get well in a hurry i'm a big believer in a product [2, actually] called, respectively, "Airborne" and "EmergenC" when i am ill with some or another bug. I hope they have such on your side of the pond. i'm routinely alone 90% of the time, only for a few hours on Saturdays am I in town for groceries and visiting my sister. my sister is basically all I have in this life. she would find my moldering corpse in my tin can, belatedly, after perhaps 2 weeks of no contact.

I too have no friends. I had one friend but she "broke up with me" because we had nothing in common. I had barbies to keep me company until I was about 25. I have a boyfriend and 2 dogs. Maybe get a pet if u can.

I feel this way often, I try to take solace in my dogs honestly I prefer them to people.

I’m undiagnosed Aspergers and as high functioning as is possible...YES to the one who said NT’s automatically assume only bad people have no friends! Therefore not doing well socially as aspires leads to NT’s making assumptions who then talk or are known by other NT’s who then make more assumptions and throw in a few awkward social interactions on your own aspirations part and soon no corner of the world is safe due to literally everyone being connected in some way. However, before others figure out my aspieness which I can now generally fake it till I make it/mimic NT behavior sufficiently for at least 6 months..they consistently comment on how honest, how sweet, how pure and good I am as a person. Then after a few encounters with my aspieness and as those encounters accumulate over time and as they begin to talk with others about me due to the awkward encounters and the way that doesn’t line up with their idea of me as s person they become someone who ultimately believes me to have ulterior motives, hidden agendas, and a double life because they can’t make sense of what they encounter and what they know of me existing st the same time. I long ago tired of trying to fight it or explain it to them and now simply tell them whatever they want to hear and let them win and live on.

To the socialist researcher...duh!! ! Being alone sucks but obviously you’ve already made your own NT assumptions about what we may be like as people inside. Essentially, you are what you’re researching. You are the problem but don’t worry you’ll always find yourself in good company or at least having any company at all.