Published on 12, July, 2020
I'm 25, male and diagnosed with mild Aspergers. Despite this I always had a decent number of friends at school and was in the fairly cool crowd, but became depressed at 18, lost touch with all my friends and have had none ever since. How do I make friends again? And not just any friends, but normal, reasonably cool friends like I used to have? I don't want to be friends with other types of people as we don't enjoy the same things, I like the same things that the average lad my age does. I'd rather have no friends than ones I don't enjoy being around. I'm fairly good at hiding my Aspergers but people can usually tell sooner or later, so I need to hide it better if I can, not sure if I can completely hide it though. Some people didn't care but others thought I was weird and wanted nothing to do with me, even though I'm really not that different from most people. I hate having it and would rather die than tell people, even though it's mild it's caused me so many problems.
You will Make many Friends just by being here.....
I don't want online friends or other autistic friends, I want normal lads for friends like I used to have.
We're all willing to serve that purpose, should you ever want that to happen :)
There are some very intelligent People here on NAS.Everybody here will help and support.You have arrived at the right place for advice for ASD , ( if you wish to take it ).
I do have plenty of online friends, but I wouldn't say they count. I really need actual social interaction again haha. To be honest I think it'd be worse to have some types of friends than none at all, I really don't enjoy the company of utter chavs or nerds for example. I mean the whole point of friends is you like them and have things in common with them.
It's ok.
I didn't mean to be rude or anything, it's just that I did say the kind of friends I'm looking for in the original post.
All i meant was You have to start Somewhere.
But wouldn't it be a start to have friends, irrespective of whether they're quote unquote, normal, online or otherwise. I think I'm already spotting a problem here.
Wow !That told me didn't it ! ?