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Not counting family, I have a couple close friends. One was my best friend from Kindergarten through high school. He lives hundreds of miles away now and I rarely see him. When I do (such as when his grandmother recently passed away) it is like we are still that close, like brothers. The other I played music with and see him about once a year. I just don't socialize much.

Similar here only I had a couple short term friendships here and there, last one was almost 2 years ago now My therapist and Dars person is pretty nice.

I think 2..at-least 1. =)

I think 2..at-least 1. =)

I only have online-only friends. The only people I will see socially irl are my family and bf and even that is rare.

None. I have 1 person who I talk to occasionally but we're not quite at the 'friend' level yet.

I wish "Chandler Bing" would have been a poll option. I would have picked that.

I have three close "real-life" friends (I rarely see them in person, though; they all live far away), and my best friend is an Internet friend I've never met in person (she lives somewhat far away, too).

I chose 3-4. I have 4 friends but I rarely see them. I only see 1 of them maybe once a month. The others live 3, 5, and 20 hours away, so we catch up over the phone once every few months. 3 of those friends are ones that I've had since childhood. I've only made 1 new friend since my childhood, which is kinda sad but I'm kinda picky because I don't really enjoy having friends sometimes.

I have one friend and a husband.


I have tried to be a good friend to people. I fail hard. Mostly due to my inability to split my attention. Hyperfocus has killed so many of my friendships.

I have tried being friends with NT people but I don't understand the need to play weird social mind games as a normal part of interaction. Sometimes I feel like a trained poodle jumping through hoops to prove my worthyness.

I have basically given up trying to make real/deep/meaningfull relationships with the NT group. They do not understand me, I do not understand them.

I just smile and nod. Smile and nod....

i have a husband that i love and never want to part with. he feels the same with me, if not more so.

i have a demanding woman that i work with, but i dont really want her friendship. she has learning difficulties and adhd traits too. also i am sure shes bisexual too. she gets on my nerves too.

also a lot of men from work fancy me. i admit i am very attractive.

but otherwise, i havent really got a great deal of friends. it doesnt bother me though. i dont want friends.

I have one friend, but I don't see her very often anymore.

I don't know how many friends I have as I don't know whether they fit best into the aqaitance category or the friend one.

I ceratinly know a lot of people, and a lot of people like me because they say that I am allways open and honest. People usually come to me for advice because they say that I say how it is, rather than telling them what they might want to hear.

People I know that I think might be in the friend category tend to be people either older or younger than myself. My youngest "friend" is 19 & my oldest "friend" is 92.

In trying to understand what the difference between a friend & an aquatance I went to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship
After reading that page it was even more confusing.

If someone does something nice for me does that make them a friend?
The thing is that I have been told that some people manipulate others into getting what they want by being nice to them. Such a person might seem like a friend, but really they aren't.

I don't know how many friends I have because I can't work out how to put someone in that category as apposed to if they are an aqaitance.

This always confused me as well. What is the amount of "intimacy" required to make someone a "close" friend.

I have 4.

We like to joke around, even turning something as awful as snow into a joke. There are lots of laughs, I made up a language and they found it extremely funny. The number 7 (seevin) was the funniest. We like to joke around that we all have the same favorite number (69) and I write stories about a chair named Edward and they read the stories and think they're awesome. I have a good relationship with my friends.

That's out of the question. Ironically, his father brainwashed him into believing lots of BS about me in order to keep him away from me. He even threatened to file a restraining order against me.