Do most people here have close friends/dating experience

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I have none of those, so I'm wondering how bad is my condition.,

None of those myself.

I have had 2 best friends and the most friends at one time was 8 in high school.
Dating wise I went out with 4 girls and eventually married one.
I get along with most people but only get close to others who have AS or something similar.
I have found only those who understand what it is like to go through really understand me which
is why I did so well in high school it was special needs only.
I bet you would do real well if you were around alot of fellow aspies!

I have had one best friend for many years but he passed away in 2006. Dating experience, yes, but didn't like it.

I have married friends, and I've had a few longer term relationships myself.

I've had a few close friends and several acquaintances to hang out with when my friends were busy. Right now I have two close friends.

I've been married twice and dated a good bit.

I also wasn't dx'd until my 40's and by then I had learned to "pass" because I thought everybody else thought/felt like me and they just knew how to hide it better, so I forced myself. If I had known I was actually different, then I would have probably felt that it was too difficult to learn to act like everybody else. That's why I'm glad I was dx'd late, because I know how I am and know I would have just given up.

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I'm giving it another shot. We will see.
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I had one best friend for a couple years in elementary school. After that, just teachers. I had a couple very short (few months) romantic-ish relationships. At the time, I thought we were just friends. I didn't realize I was being dated until it was too late and the other person knew we were a couple but I didn't, and as soon as I realized that, it was over before I knew it was over, and none of them answer my calls anymore.
"I didn't know what I was missing until I got what I was missing, and after losing it, I didn't realize I'd lost it."

Hey im 38 yrs old. I lack in both these things. We just have to put ourselfs in social situations as much as we can. my firm just merged with a bigger firm this summer. Many people to mingle with. Just have to Practice, Practice , Practice.

A lot of acquaintances I feel very comfortable with and talk to (mostly at work), but zero close friends and relationships. I'm starting up with a new therapist that specializes in Asperger's, though.

No close friends, no dating experience. So even though you're alone you are not alone in that.

Well I have some close friends, but I don't think I have a best friend. I really don't know :S I've never dated lol XD.

Close friends, yes. Dating experience, no.

Had only 1 best friend who f*cked me over big time.

Had only 1 girlfriend.
All the rest were girls who thought it would be funny to pay interest in me, 1 calls me ugly, 1 runs off with her male gay best friend even though she says shes a lesbian, and another tells me she loves me but doesn't want to date or anything and then she just goes off with her ex.

I've never really had more than 10 friends and right now I have less than 5 which I don't even see that much. I've had a few girlfriends in psychiatry but they weren't exactly faithful and they were pretty much batsh!t crazy. I've never really had a date. I'd really like to have one, but the few times I've had the guts to ask a girl out she rejected me, so I probably didn't handle it very well. Haven't tried it again ever since and it's been a few years.

I used to have close friends, but I've never dated before.

I've been seeing a therapist lately, though, and we both really think that I have the capacity to love someone on an emotional level. The problem is that I'm shy around girls, and all the girls I've been attracted to in the past have been the type that were shy around boys.

I'm not attracted to confident NT girls, and I feel like I can't relate to them.