Who else has difficulty making friends?

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I was diagnosed with autism 2yrd ago. I can make friends, but can't keep them. I have a hard time figuring out what to do after making the friend! Who else has this issue?

Wow! Good to know! I thought I was weird! For along time I use to be sad that I have autism, but now, I am proud!

Why would not being able to maintain a friendship make you proud?

op let me whip out my palm pilot and check. yep just as i suspected, 0 friends

me

It's very hard for me to make new friends and it's hard to keep them for long too.

Me.

Now try to lead a group of them to do a presentation, book the rooms for them, write the minutes, do a project with them, offer them emotional support, prepare field-trip materials, not be rude to them and share accommodation with them without losing it.

I didn't manage this...

Trying to find a group to work with was the worst.
It was so embarrassing and difficult and everyone was already taken.

I just had to give up on syncing up with large groups of people in the end: it was too much. They were all too fast for me socially anyway.

I used to be left without a partner when teacher ordered "pair up into groups" It's better, now, in college I can do small talk and find a person to work with. It used to be horrible in middle school. I was the only one working alone and the teacher looked at me like I was from another planet.

I suspect everyone of wanting to harm me, so take a guess.

That, and I'm boring. I'm only of use for material possessions and the borrowing of.

I find it incredibly hard to make friends, mainly due to the fact that I don't talk to people unless they talk to me and even then it's usually incredibly awkward for me and probably for them too.

I have this problem. Because it's hard for me to make friends first as well my grandma introduced me to her work collegues niece. She is the same age as me & at first it seemed like we got along fine. However this was last year & somehow after only going to her house 4 times we have managed to lose friendship to one another. I know that friendships take work but I can't see what I did wrong in that situation. I sent her emails, asked her if she wanted to go places (but she said she couldn't because she had sport practise) & thought that I was making good conversation. Since I don't go to school anymore I think that was my last chance of having a good friend, a teenager who I finally thought had something in common with me. We both liked photography & animals.
I don't know what happened.