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Making friends online

Kate Kestrel

Hi, I’m an autistic woman and I’m looking to make friends online. In the past I haven’t felt the need for friends but in recent months I’ve been struggling with anxiety during the pandemic and I’ve started to feel a lonely and isolated. I have a loving and supportive family but recently I’ve felt it would be nice to make friends with other autistic people online. I’ve looked for friendship groups for autistic people that are purely online but haven’t found anything suitable. 
I’m an artist and my interests are art, the countryside and nature, literature, music, films and tv. I like cooking too. 
I’m married and have 2 wonderful autistic children (one male and one non-binary). 

If anyone wants to make friends on here please say hello :) 

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  • Hi there Kate! 

    I struggle with anxiety too so I can sympathise, but I've found some really friendly people here to chat with. Also, what kind of literature do you like to read? :)

  • in reply to Rosie

    Hi Rosie, 

    For a long time I was obsessed with reading everything by and about the Brontes, and I loved Thomas Hardy. Recently I’ve been reading a more biographies/autobiographies - currently one about Sandy Denny and one by Diana Athill (from reading it I don’t like her very much I must confess!). She said something so horrible in it about someone committing suicide being ‘weak’ that I’m not going to keep reading it as it made me so angry that she said that! I just listened to an audiobook to quite a ‘light read’ book called ‘The Familiars’ and it was quite nice to read a less heavy book - as my anxiety has been so bad recently that I just wanted to be read a story - like a bed time story really.  It’s quite relaxing. I might get another audiobook like that - not too taxing - to listen to at night. 
    have you read anything really good recently?

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  • in reply to Rosie

    Hi Rosie, 

    For a long time I was obsessed with reading everything by and about the Brontes, and I loved Thomas Hardy. Recently I’ve been reading a more biographies/autobiographies - currently one about Sandy Denny and one by Diana Athill (from reading it I don’t like her very much I must confess!). She said something so horrible in it about someone committing suicide being ‘weak’ that I’m not going to keep reading it as it made me so angry that she said that! I just listened to an audiobook to quite a ‘light read’ book called ‘The Familiars’ and it was quite nice to read a less heavy book - as my anxiety has been so bad recently that I just wanted to be read a story - like a bed time story really.  It’s quite relaxing. I might get another audiobook like that - not too taxing - to listen to at night. 
    have you read anything really good recently?

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