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How do I build up a wall in my heart against getting hurt in a friendship, when a colleague doesn't want to have the same intensity of friendship as I do. I normally don't let anyone get close to me, but if there's someone who I connect with I can't help but feel like I've been best friends with them for years and the friendship isn't reciprocated in the same way. The other person is more polite than wanting to build a close friendship. I don't know how to pull my friendship and heart back. Can anyone give me advice plz x

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  • Having been on the gay scene long before I was diagnosed with autism later in life, I’ve always struggled with issue, mainly because I was raised an only child and my extended family members have always expressed strong disapproval of my having any friendships at all as a child long before I came out as gay, because they were following traditional Irish Catholic social teachings, regarding these friendships outside of the family circle as being “bad company” and this disapproval continued long after I came out - because I was raised an only child and came from a traditional Rural Catholic background, I also faced prejudice and discrimination from within the gay community, even aside from the fact that many gay men can be very cliquey 

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  • Having been on the gay scene long before I was diagnosed with autism later in life, I’ve always struggled with issue, mainly because I was raised an only child and my extended family members have always expressed strong disapproval of my having any friendships at all as a child long before I came out as gay, because they were following traditional Irish Catholic social teachings, regarding these friendships outside of the family circle as being “bad company” and this disapproval continued long after I came out - because I was raised an only child and came from a traditional Rural Catholic background, I also faced prejudice and discrimination from within the gay community, even aside from the fact that many gay men can be very cliquey 

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