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Making friends/loneliness

tetra

Hi Wave  I'm a bit new so please be patient with me:)

Something I've struggled with my whole life is making friends and finding likeminded people. Lately I've felt so much more isolated than usual and I feel a bit hopeless.

I'm 26 but every time I try and make friends or socialize with people, I feel like I'm that weird, lonely 13 year old again who doesn't have a place anywhere, and although it feels embarrassing to even say, I'm really, really lonely. Everyone around me seems to have friends and I just don't get it. 

It's so hard to make friends as an adult. How do you even do it? Where do you even go? Does anyone else find this really difficult? 

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  • I understand how you feel. I do have a few friends but they are all current friends and local. I have no one from past jobs, school, towns I used to live in. I’m not sure what happens but it’s the same every time. I know I sometimes think I am more friends than the other person thinks we are, or sometimes I’m very cautious because I don’t want to frighten someone away. Having hobbies outside the home and working are how I have made all my friends. 

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  • I understand how you feel. I do have a few friends but they are all current friends and local. I have no one from past jobs, school, towns I used to live in. I’m not sure what happens but it’s the same every time. I know I sometimes think I am more friends than the other person thinks we are, or sometimes I’m very cautious because I don’t want to frighten someone away. Having hobbies outside the home and working are how I have made all my friends. 

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