Are you interested in friendships?

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This is pretty basic. I just need some vague statistics to put in a paper I'm writing.

Please feel free to qualify your answers.

For aspies and auties only!

Thanks

Friend ships are always welcome, its the trust issues that I havbe problems with,
also, if the friend is female then it could become an issue durring the really lonely times in ones life.

...I've just been so lonely and with few-if-any friendships all of my life .........

I am interested, but they have never lasted for long.

PS. "Another One Bites the Dust" is my theme song, LOL.

I've never had any true friendships in my life...there are plenty of people who know and greet me, but friendship for me is a two-way street. I'm tired of giving and giving yet getting nothing in return.

For the most part, friendships are really difficult for me to handle. For right now, I'm content just being by myself.

A good quetson, but do not feel its as easy as yes or no..

My answer would be sometimes!

The few friends I have, do have to understand friendship on my terms also.
That I can not be a continual daily friend just overloads me.

My answer would be a qualified 'yes'.

I'm interested in the right kind of friendships, those that are healthy as opposed to those that are toxic and drain the life out of me. If I can't find that, I'd prefer to be alone.

Yes and no.

I had about 3 ppl who I considered friends b/c we all shared same interests and I never felt judged or put down for being me as I tried not to do the same. We all, I think respected eachother even of our different views.

Then there's those who I would consider fair weathered friends. In my community college, I hung out with some ppl I didn't relate or feel comfortable with. A lot of them came from wealthier families. So the cost of vacation or college didn't seem to concern them any when talking about their options in the future. So I guess you could say we were in very different worlds as I've had to work for money.

Kind of depends I suppose... on the person if I want to be friends or no.

I'm a "Hard to be friends with" kind of person unfortunately.
I like being friends with lots of girls, but quite often I'll end up caring too much about them and that screws things up.
Guys would probably make good friends with common interests... but guys really don't like me much so it doesn't happen.

It depends. There are three things I look for in a friend.

1) Can trust each other, or learn to do so, and understand one another's point of view of the world and the things that go on around them.

2) The person doesn't have ideals that conflict TOO deeply with my own.

3) They let me be me. It's too often that I make a friend, only for them to try and change me and teach me how I "Should be" socially, making me feel very inadequate. I like talking with friends, it's good. But I also need my space, more so than most.

It also takes me knowing someone really well before I can really keep up a conversation with them. Otherwise it ends after a few scentences and becomes very frustrating. For this reason, I can often only make friends with someone while an existing friend is part of a conversation.

But yeah. Friends are good. And I wouldn't trade those I have for the world.

I'm very interested in friendships. I have two very close friends that I've met at my clubhouse and we drive around town, every evening. I also have a few other friends who go there, as well. I'm not as close with them. I also have lots of acquaintances.

Yes, I am interested in friendships. They just exhaust me and so does the process of trying to make friends. I have two, possibly three, people in my life whom I'd consider friends, and even with them I end up tired. I do want friends, but it's very difficult.

I wish I had more close friends, but I cherish the few I do have. The are only a few people on this world that I can trust. I can't even trust some of my family. In fact when my grandmother dies, I'm cutting my ties with my dad's entire family.

Thank you everybody!

Just for a heads up, some how some NT's (including my Mom) are getting the impression that people on the spectrum are not interested in relationships. Since I am writing a paper on college experiences for persons on the autism spectrum, I wanted to have some statistics, and maybe some quotes on how "we" view friendships.

Don't worry. I will ask permission before I quote anyone.

Please keep posting and voting on this thread. I need all info I can get.

Yeah I'm interested in friendship.