What are your friends to you?

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I consider mine an extension off of my own interests since I cannot bring myself to care about others most of the time. Oddly enough, I am more polite to strangers than those who DO care though.

I think of mine as people who I can talk to about other people. I think of me as someone who doesn't like talking about other people, so they're not like me. One person doesn't talk to me about others, and we talk more about life in general. That's what I prefer!

The question is not applicable to me.

to OP: same here, and here's something I just thought about it:

The people I think are my friends are people I have let my barriers down in the presence of. This actually means that there is more pressure on them and I expect more from them than I do other people. My expectations are mostly to do with how much they feed my interests. If they fail to do so, I might get bored or angry, especially if they led me to believe they would. Strangers are all innocent. They don't carry the priveledge of any of my trust and so cannot let me down in anyway, so its easy to be nice to them. Its those friends you really have to keep an eye on, I'm telling you, they're sneaky.

That sounds like me. I actually have a hard time showing affection when I feel like I'm being watched and I don't want people to take my friends away from me because they think I don't deserve them or think I'm stepping out of my given limits as a selfish teenager. My friends came about because of my interests, but I think of them as people to smother with compliments, and they love it and I know so because they tell me.

My friends to me are people who have some sort of similarities to me as well as people with whom I can trust and have a good time with.

I think friends are the ones who stay around. You know, you'll make acquaintances with people, but friends are the people that make an effort to stay friends with you, if that makes sense. Most of my friends I do meet by interests, but interests can come and go sometimes, and sometimes friends go with them, but yeah, friends are the people who are "left" at the end. I'd say in my life experience, it's best to count your best friends as people who are your friends for a period of years.

Friends?What friends?

People I care about who care about me....at least those are real friends, I've been used before by people pretending to be my friends.

Someone I can cry on or laugh with

A foreign concept. I don't relate platonically to people.

The line between friend and romance is very thin and interchangeable with me, so my interpretation of a "friend" will most likely be different than the general population. My friends are all suspect aspies that I've known for many years and am comfortable with. Sharing the same fandom helps too.

My friends are anyone who I can talk to on a semi-regular basis.

I feel that I'm just an acquaintance to my best friends.

For me it is someone, i dont get tired after being with
Someone i dont avoid afterwards
Someone who does not make me feel weird.

(it is my new definition, so i am very happy with myself for finally figuring it out).

My friend is someone to whom I can go when I'm feeling blue and just talking to her and griping about that which is thoroughly frelled up is very helpful also I can share things about myself I've never shared with anyone.

> Implying I have friends.