I found a video about me

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Strange random coincidence but this "bot voiced" video is exactly my life



How strange? I thought I was the only one to experience this....

I'm not saying it is true, but would it bother you?

There's literally hundreds of commentators underneath the video who said the same thing. It kind of captures a modern sense of isolation that NTs are facing,

I thought it was educational for other 20+ WP members that this is a universal experience even among NTs

The individual may be an Aspie.
He is an introvert. About 50 percent of the people in the world are introverts.
So he is on his way to meet someone who might become his friend. Good move. It is very common for people to lose their chance of making new friends after they graduate from school. But in this case, he is making a try. Good for him.

There are worse things than not having a friend, in life.

We don't know, just from this video, or from the fact that it got lots of comments, how "universal" this is. Are you aware of any relevant scientific studies?

As Jimmy mentioned 50% of the planet have introverted tendencies. It seriously resonated for me at my age realising I passed a point of no return and can't go back to that carefree time when I could drift in and out of friendships.

I was isolated from an early age—partially by choice.

I had to learn to entertain myself. I had to learn how not to rely on other people.

Having "introverted tendencies" is not the same thing as lacking friends. Many introverts are quite capable of having friends. They just don't need to see their friends as often as extroverts do, nor do they enjoy social gatherings as much, and, when they do get together with friends, they prefer substantive conversation over superficial chitchat. Introverts don't necessarily lack social skill, but find too much social interaction to be tiring.

If even a lot of NT's are having difficulty making and keeping friends, I would guess that's most likely, at least in part, because of the extent to which mainstream Western culture commodifies people.

Also there seems to have been a general decline of people getting together to do specific enjoyable activities together, such as playing in-person games of whatever kind. When I was little, most of the adults in my life occasionally played card games, board games, or informal impromptu sports such as baseball games (actually playing them with each other, not just watching the professionals on TV), or bowling, or croquet. Such activities seem to be less common these days, as far as I can tell.

One big factor in this decline may be the advent of TV, and then solo video games, and now smartphones. But this doesn't explain it entirely. People still get together in-person (or did until the COVID era at least), but, apparently, mostly just to hang out in bars, or wherever, rather than to do anything active together.

People still get together amid COVID—trust me!

I’m not a very “social” type.

People in the City are as rip-roaring as always.