Was I in the wrong, what do you think of this situation?

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Are they aware of your autism?

You probably shouldn't wholeheartedly trust my advice because I've certainly messed up a few friendships but I would have done most of the things you did. I mean, how can you tell someone with an abusive stepmother, a dad who tried to smash your head into the car window and an autism spectrum disorder to stop moping? That's a cruel and heartless response and of course, I mean, OF COURSE her status was in relation to what you'd said and her defense that it wasn't purely relevant to you sounds like a blatant lie. In your situation (and I have) I would have have deleted her as a friend as well. If a 'friend' makes you feel substantially worse, they don't deserve to be your friend. It's also really unfortunate they coerced you into apologizing only to cause you more pain by blocking you. All of that said, I probably wouldn't have had a male friend lure her on but only because I would have wanted to be 'in the right' at the end of everything, knowing that I'd done my best, I'd apologized and the fallout of the relationship, in the end, was her doing. I totally understand your motivation, though. I don't think you were the bad guy, I think you reached out for help during an awful time from someone you thought you could confide in only to be mocked and that's worth a friend-delete any day.

^ I agree with the poster above. "Stop moping" is not an appopriate response to: "my Dad tried to smash my head through a car window."

Perhaps this ex-friend of yours has a lack of compassion for others, or has had an easy life and she does not like hearing about nasty things that happen to other people. Perhaps she wants you to talk only about cheerful things. That's what it sounds like to me, based on her comment of "moping chats no, cheerful chats yes."

That sounds like the demand of a superficial, pampered kind of person who has had an easy life and does not want to talk about, or think about, the nasty things that happen to other people. She just wants to be happy and have fun all the time, and demands that people only talk to her about nice things.

Well, that is not called being a friend. When you are somebody's friend you are supposed to CARE about them. I mean, even the people on this forum (myself included) seem to care more about the fact that your dad was so mean and violent to you.

There is another possibility, of course. Since we're only hearing your side of the story perhaps you have neglected to mention that you are a person who complains and mopes a lot? Perhaps you are always moaning to this friend, all the time, about your problems, and that one last complaint was like the straw that broke the camel's back. I do not know. Based on your version of events, it sounds more likely that SHE is in the wrong, and that she is a very bad friend.

If I understood it correctly, you had a friend impersonate somebody she likes, flirt with her and then insult her?

That is probably wrong, but I still admire your manipulative skills. Unless you really mope a lot, she deserved it.

They tell you to cheer up because they are not interested in your problems and they use the you being negative thing to justify their bad actions towards you without looking deeper to your real problem, because they simply don't care about you.

I know plenty of people like them.

It's a socially accepted way of being apathic and getting away with it.

Most people are friended with others because of their status and when these certain others are starting to have striking personal issues, their status drops and they get unfriended by the majority, because people with issues aren't "cool" and "trendy".