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If you ask people which they prefer, most would say few close friends vs. 1000 of decent/so-so friends. Aspie/Autie (whichever you are) this is not that bad to hear (at least for me). It's nice to know that I'm not alone and I don't feel like I'm so far behind in terms of friendship. Not all neurotypicals have 100+friends, most of them are acquaintances/colleagues. What is your social life like?

i don't have one

My social life is pretty much nonexistent. I'm in a relationship, but I don't really have any friends besides my husband. I'm not in much contact with my family and relatives and my colleagues pretty much ignore me. I'm very socially isolated and don't know how to make friends or get people to give me a chance.

I have about 2 friends that I have known for years, that I see sometimes. Other than that, zilch.

i have 2 friends.
well, one boyfriend and one friend.

I have one real friend and everyone else are just acquaintances. I only hang around with this friend in college though, I do what I can to make sure I have no social life cuz I truly hate socialising. I have a few half friend/acquaintances in college too so at lunch time I bolt out the door as fast as I can to make sure I don't happen to be walking out at the same time as any of them cuz then I'll be expected to eat lunch with them.

I always stick to one good friend. I find it hard to maintain a close relationship with more than one friend at a time. I usually have a couple more friends I can talk to

I have a few friends, about 5 or 6, two in school and three out. Its alright but I wish I had more of an oppurtunity for friends. This amount is left like this due to circumstance, I love socialising.

Outside of the internet I have no one.

I'm too shy in real life to be able to make friends easily and I act too wierd. As a result people treat me like a child or mentally deficient person.

I have 3 really close friends in school, plus 2 or 3 more people who I'm comfortable with. Outside of school is kind of weird, because I have 4 close friends and a few more really good friends who live scattered across North America and I only get to see once a year at most. Still, my life is pretty good as long as I don't have to try to socialize in big groups, and don't get hung up with the fact that I almost never see anyone outside of school (with the exception of all of those long distance friends, but that's only once a year).

I have three people I'd consider close friends, who I actually don't get to see that often anymore. I call them close because we talk and do just about anything and everything when we're together (get your mind out of the gutter). Everyone else I know is either family or an acquaintance.

I prefer no friends

I have two real friends at school. Last year (seventh grade) I had four so-so friends. Two of them became real friends and the other two are simply acquaintances. My mom asks "What's going on with you?" and I never know how to respond to this. She expects me to have a larger social circle. She tells me staying home all the time isn't normal, having one friend isn't normal, liking aloneness isn't normal, ect. I wish I could just say "WELL SCREW NORMALCY!" It's like she thinks I will grow out of Autism when nobody can. She doesn't know I'm on this website and I don't tell her because she doesn't want me talking to strangers (I DON'T reveal my identity and I'm talking to other autistics/aspies I can RELATE to. What's so wrong here?)

I have to say my social life is the best its ever been and likely to be the best it might ever be in my entire life. I have a 6 decent friends that I hangout with consistently, with a ton of acquintances/casual friends from 2 different social cliques within my school. Plus I have a couple close online friends, and a handful of not so close online friends. I get invites to do stuff almost every single weekend. I can almost always find someone to hangout with when I want to. But unfortunetly Im graduating from college in 2 months, soon its gonna be all gone... . Its like why do I finally get decent social life that cant last? It really sucks. I just hope I got the skills to move on to different enviorenments.

I have two close friends and a couple more good friends, but I've never been one to have big social groups, either. My b/f (NT) has a huge social group and I just don't understand how he does it.

I have one friend who I always go see movies with a few times a month which I guess is pretty stable and long. I used to have more but I didn't want to hang out that much at the time.