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Making friends online - advice needed

LostGUY

Hi all. I'm interested too hear your experiences of making friends online. Is it even possible and what does it look like?I'd like to get to know other autistic people online, as I can't find any local to me. I've never really had friends for the past 25 years so have a lot of doubts about the process and not even sure it's possible especially online. So, some of my questions, how long do you find it takes to gel with someone? Are forums or zoom chats better/different? What about discord? Don't really know what that is. Any advice, tips or your own experience would be welcomed. 

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  • BTW discord is a type of chatroom. Well its a collection of chatrooms moderated by the runner. Only the chatroom log is persistent and can contain images and there is a voice option too where everyone can kind of join a conference call and stream videos together. I believe the original idea was to let you chat (via voice) to your friends as you played video games and or watched your friends game. Like twitch with voice chat for a much smaller audience of people you know.

  • in reply to Peter

    What I like about Discord is that the servers are often themed, so if you have a particular hobby or special interest you have a ready-made conversation topic that you know people will engage with. I found an open invitation on social media to a server for fans of a book series I love and have made some great friends there.

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  • in reply to Peter

    What I like about Discord is that the servers are often themed, so if you have a particular hobby or special interest you have a ready-made conversation topic that you know people will engage with. I found an open invitation on social media to a server for fans of a book series I love and have made some great friends there.

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