Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi, hope you are all well.
I am sure I am not alone on here about this issue, but to put it quite simply I am 32 years old and I have no friends in real life. I met a couple of people on Facebook many moons ago that I became particularly friendly with and got to know, so much so that we have each others postal address to send each other greeting cards, but apart from that we only communitate with each other on Facebook as one of them lives abroad and the other 200 miles away.
In real life, no matter how well I get on with people it never gets past the workmate or acquaitance stage. As a child, forming friendships was relatively easy and I had some very good friends in both primary and secondary school (no longer in touch unfortunately). But as an adult, I am finding forming friendships to be increasingly difficult.
CrazyCatLady91 said:In real life, no matter how well I get on with people it never gets past the workmate or acquaitance stage.
The following books may help here:
An Aspie's Guide to Making and Keeping Friends - Attwood, Tony, Evans, Craig R., Lesko, Anita (2015)eISBN 9781784501259
Friendships The Aspie Way - Wendy Lawson (2006)ISBN-10: 1 84310 427 X
Forming friendships tends to require some shared interests so while work offers a shared experience it is also a bit of shared suffering and too much time together for most people. You may get better results from going to clubs or events for any special interests you have.
Thank you for the recommendations. I will check them out.