Are you anyone's "best" friend?

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i'm grateful to have friends at all, considering my social skills deficits, but the friends i have....i can tell i'm not really their best friend, because they have other friends that they invite to things that i don't usually get invited to. For example, their home or an outing that would be really fun. It is like there is this invisible barrier.

How about you, do you feel the same way if you have friends; are you anyone's best friend; if not, how can you usually tell?

<--- All alone in the world.

I'm not anyone's best friend. I can't really explain how I know this to be the case, I just know that I am not anyone's closest friend, or the person they turn to first if they need someone. In the past I have been someone's best friend, I know this because they told me. That was a long time ago, and we grew apart as people do and now live in different countries.

I do sometimes wish that I was someone's best friend, but it is a lot of responsibility - I often need to 'disappear' for a few days or even weeks and so I think that makes me unsuitable as a best friend.

not anymore and recently too.

Only had 2 best friends so far one of them lives 1300miles away where I grew up and the other passed
away in 2005.

I have two people who consider me the best friend they have ever had. While I will not do certain things they want to do that I do not want to do, I am a very loyal person. I am also known for always seeking the greatest good in a situation rather than the greatest emotional response. At first, some people are put off by this, but in time they come to respect the fact that I will tell them the truth no matter what. If they have a problem, they can come to me and know that I will do my best to help them solve it, no matter what it takes. I'm also considered to be a great person to talk to as I know how to listen and have such a large base of knowledge that I can talk about a wide variety of subjects (most of them technical, political, historical or scientific).

Nope. I've never been anyone's best friend. In fact aside my family I'm not really anyone's friend.

Boyfriend. He's my only.
Except if cats count.
Then he's first of two.

I have hardly any friends in general never mind a "best friend"

I am and I'm thankful for that.
I can be a very good friend when given a chance. I can't keep more than one good friend and a couple of less close friends at a time though, as I don't have the energy it takes.

I have a few best friends. From my university time there are two girls and we are each others best friends. We are to old to do everything together always (family, job etc.). Then I have one childhod friend, we are best friends as well. All three of them are "odd" people, they might be somwhere near the spectrum all of them I do not get invited to everything they do, and I do not invite them to everything I arrange. Nothing to do with that - it is more a feeling of the fact that they are always there for me (and the other way round). For a long period we did not see each other and then when we met up, everything is just the same. For me it does not matter if I do not see people for at year or so, they can still be best friends in the sense that we can share everything (including the not so nice experiences).

I have other friends that are good friends. One male friend who is NT is a very good friend (I am an aspie apparently with many male characteristics) and I like his wife as well. We go to concerts etc. I like to hang out with the boys, they are so much more uncomplicated than the NT females.

I'm KyletheGhost's best friend, and he is mine. We're online friends, but it still counts IMHO.

Words out of my own mouth.

I have been a few people's best friend, but that was many years ago.

In any case, you needn't be someone's best friend to be invited to their home. If you never were, chances are you're considered an acquaintance by them.

My best friend is an online one too. He's from the "18th Street Gang" in Los Angeles, and he always tells me I'm his best friend. I've known him on PSN for a couple years or so.

I've been best friends with exactly 3 people. One recently just moved across the country though
I still text one of them although she goes to a different school.
and I don't think the other one likes me very much.

I'm definitely not anyone's best friend. In fact, I'm not totally sure my only friend even likes me all that much, considering that he almost never invites me to do anything with him(but I will initiate occasionally). He is an Aspie, though.