Introversion, but wanting to be bit normal

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Well, being on the spectrum, I'm usually locked in my room during free time, stimming and obsessing about whatever. I'm comfortable that way. But there are times when I just want to hang out with people. Not having great social skills (though I have been getting lots better over the past several months), I often don't have many people to call up to hang out. During those times, I get pretty jealous of others when I get on Facebook and look at the pictures of people having fun. Does this happen to you very often?

To the Loneliest One

There is in certain living souls
A quality of loneliness unspeakable
So great it must be shared
As company is shared by lesser beings.
Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this
That in immensity
There is one lonelier than you."

[Theodore Sturgeon]

"Message found in a bottle, sender unknown. Still alive or long dead. The last of his species or a traveler marooned on alien shores. Perhaps in the end, all that matters is this: that even to loneliness, there is an end. And for those who are lonely enough, long enough, a message cast adrift on the darkest beaches...of the Twilight Zone."

I like the episode where your avatar is taken from.

thanx Nathaneal
yea, ain't it a good one? it was one of only 6 that were shot on videotape instead of 35MM film, so that is why it has a liveness and immediacy that the regular episodes lack. i am a combo of henry corwin [the santa claus avatar] as well as aunt blabby-

Yes, I get that way too. Where I enjoy being alone, but at the same time, would like more people to hang out with. I don't particularily enjoy making "small talk," not only because I fundamentally suck at it, but I've recently come to realize I actually don't enjoy it.

Yet we seem to live in a culture where you need to engage in "small talk" in order to cultivate the deeper, more enjoyable relationships that I love and enjoy. It's as if learning "small talk" is a pre-requisite to any kind of enjoyable relationship.

To me, it seems there ought to be an alternate route to forming meaningful friendships.

Yes this happens to me sometimes.

I get this way quite a lot. Although I'm an introvert, I get lonely sometimes, but it just reminds me to be proactive. I'll let myself be this way for a while, and after that while I'll gather my courage and talk to one or a couple of my friends online or through text. Sometimes we'll arrange something for later, which gives me something to look forward to.

Although you may not have a ton of people to call up and hang out (I don't either!), you likely have a couple...focus on those friendships and give them some attention...even if it's just a message or text. It goes a long way.

yes, with facebook/twitter being the status symbol of being actively happy, i do get frustrated/annoyed with all of my "friends" and their fun s**t.

point of the matter is: if you have AS or are introverted or shy for any other reason, you just will have to try harder than the average person.

if you can, try and join a community where you HAVE to work with people and along with them. try WWOOFing if you can (worldwide organisation for organic farming): the good thing about this is that being worldwide, you can do it in your own country and not feel under pressure to move to a foreign country (that sort of thing would certainly make me feel nervous anyway)

make sure you have a camera, take lots of pictures (they don't necessarily have to be of you, just of the new environment you put yourself in)

Happens with me all the time
i want to get out and have a life
but i dont get invited to any social functions
i dont have any friends
when i look at others facebook account and all the activity happening there i feel left out.

Sometimes I feel left out when I see other people's photos on facebook. A few years ago I had a bunch of people on facebook that would get together and hang out and take pictures and I could never figure out how to get invited and I'd always feel left out.

I actually have a few friends now, so I have people to talk to on facebook, and sometimes I'm even in the pictures people post.

thats quite a bit of progress u have made
congrats

Yup, I know this. I especially hate the useless advice people tend to give like, "why don't you go out for a night on the town" --> because it's too busy for me. I have been able to reduce the feeling of loneliness lately, don't know why or how though.