Published on 12, July, 2020
I’ve been reading a few books about autism recently and the authors keep saying about making friends online because you’re more likely to find people you can get on with etc. Has anyone managed to do this? Where do you find people? Like I work with animals, so there must be people like me somewhere, rather than people at work that I can’t even seem to understand?
Normally the idea of asking somebody I’m talking to if they want to do something puts my anxiety so high I just can’t say anything. I haven’t even done anything yet and I’m already stressing. What if they say no, where will we go, what if it turns out they are actually boring, what if I sit there quietly stressing the whole time and they think I’m weird. What if they say this… what if they say that…
I hope people can relate to this here!
I have a few friends on here. But making friends online is about chatting to them online.
You need to be careful as even on here you might come across someone pretending t be someone they are not, so do not give your personal info like full name date of birth address etc.
So you could just keep it as chat only and not meet in person, and maybe look online for autistic meetups near you and go to one that is professionally run and maybe meet friends that way. It can happen that you make a good friend online but do be cautious. I have made a good friend on here.