Loneliness and Social Interactions

Hi everyone,

I've spent large part of my life feeling...odd. By my 30s I accepted that whatever I was, it was my fate to be somewhat isolated and kind of looking through the peephole.

I do love solitude, silence, and a black and white environment (I mean it as a metaphor for peaceful.) but never understood why, and why group-behaviour or norms felt unnatural to me.

A few people in my life-journey have suggested that maybe I was bipolar, or bohemian, or autistic.

Being pretty focused on my own things, I simply disregarded those theories.

Now a psychologist said this maybe the case, that I am autistic according to her analysis.

Tests are slow to arrive to, so I'm waiting.

Anyhow, I recently read that autistic people tend to find communication with other autistic peers easier.

This made me curious as to some chat-platforms where users are either diagnosed, or suspicious of being autistic.

However, I'm unsure whether there are any interesting, and safe spaces for chatting, not only threads in a forum like here, but more like instant messaging (like Discord or other IRCs, or Matrix etc.)

Any ideas? Any platform that you used? Or did you give up?

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  • I met most of the Autistic people I know by joining a friend’s Discord. He isn’t Autistic himself, but he attracts a ton of Autistic people in his life (at least three of his friends identify as Autistic, his ex-wife is Autistic, and one son). I find the server really awesome, because I have notifications off and so I can peruse conversations or join calls when I have the spoons to do so. I don’t feel like I have to all the time.

    So yeah, Discord could be a good choice, but you’ve gotta find that right server is the problem. I don’t know where to find those right servers, I just lucked out in finding one lol.

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  • I met most of the Autistic people I know by joining a friend’s Discord. He isn’t Autistic himself, but he attracts a ton of Autistic people in his life (at least three of his friends identify as Autistic, his ex-wife is Autistic, and one son). I find the server really awesome, because I have notifications off and so I can peruse conversations or join calls when I have the spoons to do so. I don’t feel like I have to all the time.

    So yeah, Discord could be a good choice, but you’ve gotta find that right server is the problem. I don’t know where to find those right servers, I just lucked out in finding one lol.

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