I know this thread is 2 years old but I've found this thread today and I want to post something, because I can relate.
About 70 percent of the time I felt lonely at school. At the Junior School, I used to always be playing with other children, and hardly ever felt lonely. But at the High School, I did become very lonely. I used to stand in a group of girls from my class at break time and lunch time, but I got so bored because I could tell they didn't want me there, so I gave up in the end. I used to be like a lost soul, and I had no choice but to be my own best friend. That's what it had to come to, otherwise I would have just committed suicide. When you're an adolescent, having no friends is really horrible, especially when all your cousins around you are starting to go off and spend time with their friends, and you're just left being close to your youngest cousin who was about 5 years old, simply because he wasn't out and about with mates yet.
Now I have much more friends, and I am popular at work, and I do social activities with them, like bowling and going to the pictures and having meals out and shopping. My friends are all older than me, like in their 30s and 40s, but they are still friends, and they don't judge me against my odd ways.
But I don't get it. I read somewhere that people on the spectrum are ''socially immature'', but how come they get on better with older people, if they are socially immature?
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