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Making friends at university

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I have started my second year at a small university. I didn't make any friends last year and now I am spending all my time on my own and I am feeling really bad about this. There are no clubs that do anything that I would be interested so I am spending all my time doing things on my own which is making me feel really down.

I have not had any friends in years and I used to feel ok about this but recently this has made me feel really down however I feel really anxious in social situations and I do not know how to start to make friends or even start to chat to people so I feel traped in a cycle.

 

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  • Autistic people are often not great at making the first move socially but very often we’re good at being organised. How about starting a student club? Maybe you’d meet some friends that way. You’d probably need a certain number of signatures to form one anyway. Most student unions have a rule like that.

    so that’s basically a licence to get a clipboard with a sign up sheet on it and approach randoms on campus to talk about your favourite topic (that you’ll make a society about).

    even if you don’t start the society gives you an excuse to introduce yourself to people with out worrying about small talk because you’ve a solid and direct reason for approaching strangers.

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  • Autistic people are often not great at making the first move socially but very often we’re good at being organised. How about starting a student club? Maybe you’d meet some friends that way. You’d probably need a certain number of signatures to form one anyway. Most student unions have a rule like that.

    so that’s basically a licence to get a clipboard with a sign up sheet on it and approach randoms on campus to talk about your favourite topic (that you’ll make a society about).

    even if you don’t start the society gives you an excuse to introduce yourself to people with out worrying about small talk because you’ve a solid and direct reason for approaching strangers.

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