Hi All,
I haven't posted in a little bit but I wanted to talk to someone who would understand about friendships and the lack thereof.
Late diagnosed this year at 39 and I have been in what I now know is skills regression for 5 years. Throughout that time I realised that my friendships were based on shared interests and through skills regression most of those interests weren't my interest they were interests of those friends that I masked through to get connection.
Now that I can no longer do that I have lost the friends I do have because I don't do those shared things and I don't know how to maintain a friendship outside of an interest.
I have been reading Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism and that had a bit in there that said similar things.
I guess I am struggling because:
a) There are a couple of friends that I have semi retained and that is waning now because I don't meet up with them because I genuinely don't know what to do when I meet up with them and
b) Now I am not masking my interests I realise I don't really have any friends who are interested in the things I am.
Does anyone else feel this way?
Lots of love
Jax
