Anyone have friends when they were younger?

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When I was young I didn't really have friends at all, not sure if i really do now, yea I have people I talk to but idk, anyway, when I was young I actually rejected people who wanted to be my friend, or myabe I just didnt recognize they wanted to be friends, did anyone have friends at say, elementry school age?

Yes I had friends. I had friends my own age up until age ten and then they started to be hard to be with so I went for the younger age group. By the time I was in 6th grade, I had no friends my age but when I was 13 and 14 I was friends with a girl my age who was also an outcast. Then her family moved.

Yeah, I didn't have many friends when I was young. I would always hang out with a group of kids, but I don't think they where really my friends. I just seemed to not have any concept of what friendship was when I was growing up. Now I have lots of buddies that I do things with, like cycling buddies that I go riding with, people I travel with, and also a lot of acquaintances that I see often while on my journeys, but I still have very few friends, only two really good friends. Although I am still not a hundred percent sure what a 'normal' friendship consists of.

Todd

Yes I did have friends, or acquaintances, whichever you prefer, but I only interacted with them in school. I spent almost every weekend alone, my entire life. When I was much younger I would interact with cousins, because this was basically forced upon me. Other than that, I was, and still am alone.

I had friends during both public school and highschool, but in highschool things became much more tenuous. I passively acquired friends, I never actively socialized or "made friends" somehow through sheer dumb luck they found me.

I never made any real friends; the rare occasions when someone would get close enough to be considered a real friend I somehow managed to sabotage it and would quickly lose all contact with them. My current male friends wouldn't piss on me if I was on fire and all my female friends do is patronize me. Born alone die alone no crew to keep my crown or throne

younger..like a second ago? yes

I did, but they all either backstabbed me or found "cooler" people to hang out with instead.

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I had no friends.

I got my first real friends when I was 16-17 years old.

I had a few friends - but usually no more that one at a time. I don't think I liked it if one of my friends would become friends with someone else (why would they need another friend, when they had me?) And if I made a new friend, I would tend to spend all my time with them, to the exclusion of older friends.

I've had one friend at a time too - but definitely not all the time.

As a small boy (6-8 years old) I had a friend who was an outcast. In retrospect I guess he had a very low IQ, which might explain that.

From 10 to 13 years old I had an NT friend but I quitted the friendship gradually myself, because I wanted to spend more time on my personal obsessions than on the friendship. Stupid me!

At university I hung out with a guy - outcast for whatever reason - he was more an good acquintance than a friend, we never spoke in depth.

And now since a few years I've a friend who's much younger than me and seems a bit ADD-ish though he doesn't care about that. I adore him and would love to spend every hour with him but of course that's not possible by any means. We both have a job and he has plenty other friends.

This brief list makes a bit of a sad impression but in fact I feel extremely luckily to have a friend right now.

I use to have friends during my elementary school days. I guess back then, socializing was much easier and there wasn't much expectations. I mean when your young, all you do is play games and you don't have a worry in the world since your parents and other adults do everything for you. As you get older, social standards change very quickly and I couldn't keep up.

I've thought about that too, I figure that younger kids aren't as prejudced towards those they see as "abnormal" as older people, for instance, some kids dont like me because of my voice, (I have a parilyzed vocal cord.) Although they tend to make fun of me for that more than my autism, probably because it's more obvious.

I had one friend, but he was the best of friends. We used to be such good friends until for some reason he started being mean to me and never talked to me again

For like a week, than they would find me weird and go find more normal friends.

I had one friend from about kindergarten to about third or fourth grade. It was a little boy that was three years younger than me. I liked him because he couldn't really talk and he would go along with anything. He was alos REALLY cute... like a living doll! He had bright red curls with blue eyes and a round chubby face. I used to retend that I was the mom and he was the baby. We also played other toys and things, but his mother wanted him to have firends that were boys his own age. I actually think that she felt that I was too bossy, however. She had commented that I was too bossy a few times... I didn't play with him much after about third grade. I also would play with a ret*d girl that was about 12 or 13. She was very difficult to understand, so that didn't last for long. The only "friend" I had during grade school was a girl named Robin. She was my age and she was also very bossy. We played things that would allow us both to have control of the "script". Things like "office cubicles", "house (separate houses)", "school (seaparate classrooms)", "nurse (separate patients)", etc... She moved away and that was the end of that. I had some friends in middle school who were in the band and the orchestra. We were not friends in highschool because music was all we had in common. I had acquaintences in highschool, mostly. I rarely went out or anything after school or on the weekends until my junior year. I somehow managed to find a boyfriend and then also a best friend. My boyfriend was older and went off to college, so I only saw him once in a while. My best friend was an awkward Malaysian guy who was equally as weird as me. We use to do strange things like "hold feet" in our business class or go out to the river and play "log" (a stupid game we had made up that involved tossing a log at the base of a waterfall to see who could find the current that would allow the log to not become "stuck" in the eddie). He was my friend for 15 years. He moved to Chapel Hill, NC to get a PhD in molecular biology. We are not friends anymore because he is sort of became very capitalistic and very republican during his stay in the south. Sorry to anyone who is either or both of these things. I am sure you can understand how that could become an issue.

Sorry... I think the original question was about friends when we were small.