Do you ever wonder if you make a desirable friend??

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Do you find any of the following plain truths offensive?
1. Meat was the health food of the Stone Age, before we had trade and food preservation.
2. Vegans are more likely to be seen in the Olympics, and less often found in the hospital or morgue.
3. Vegans support themselves on a small fraction of the land used by omnivores.
4. Humans with machines have been so successful at taking over wilderness that all the wild animals now weigh less than 5% of the total of humans plus domestic animals, and naturalists say that the sixth mass extinction event is under way, ushering in the anthropocene era. We have become as deadly as vast volcanoes or huge meteors.
5. Domestic animals all make fine pets with personality if you have the room, yet they usually live in utter misery.
6. Modern agriculture is a major contributing factor to climate change, which invades even Aspies' homes in Texas.
7. Both food and drug companies prefer us to be unhealthy and addicted to mild poisons.
8. It takes less than two weeks for your body to get used to a change of diet if you get all your nutrients from new sources.
9. The oldest civilizations did not raise animals for slaughter. India gathered milk from free-roaming cattle, and China found ways to use carrion as a condiment.

Do you want the history books to remember this as the era when we had a chance to avoid mass extinctions, but felt it would not be polite to challenge the people causing them, mostly unawares?

I'd like to think I do, but I know that can change when you get older (not my mum though, she seems to have befriended the entire neighbourhood ). Which I find amusing since my dad is a lone wolf whereas my mum is very social. Personally, I have five close friends. I don't know if I'll make any friends once I start work. Hopefully I'll stay in touch with a few of my friends from Uni for a while. I'll be visiting friends in the Summer if the UK lockdown roadmap goes to plan and we're allowed to do so. A few of them think it's a shame I'm not sticking around to do a master's, but I'd rather work on my own stuff and start looking for experience. I think I've had enough of being a University student.

You can always do your masters later, right?

I'd like to think so, but I have very few friends. More often than not, I talk to people and it doesn't work out.

When I was meeting more people, it wasn't too uncommon for someone to confide in me. For example, my physiotherapist used to tell me all about her business plans, but not her other clients. I suspect that I seemed unlikely to criticize or gossip, and that talking helped clarify thoughts for them.

nobody ever told me of their business plans.

Have you studied business via books and/or experience? I wasn't offering much advice, but I could appreciate the problems. People would unload on me with more personal topics, too.

they judged me correctly as totally lacking in the entrepreneurial capitalist genes, hence a waste of their time. but people out of the blue have told me some hair-raising stuff about themselves.

^^ Jeez, yeah. And people say we don't have empathy! A guy I barely knew died in an accident, and his girlfriend, who I'd never spoken to, came to me to talk about it.

the GF saw you as her last best connection to her BF.

More likely, as his only friend who didn't know her well enough to try to replace him as a way to console her.

Yes, but they meant it is a shame that we're not going to be doing master's together. I might return to do a master's at a later date.

not everyone likes the same thing

but my worthless corpse has zero precious lil "friends".

it's been that way for a long time.

most precious lil "people" like anyone that's just like them. superficial, talk too much, laugh too often,

subconscious bias

Psychobabble Extroverts

having said that, of course i would not make a desirable friend.

Based on my lack of success, I assume I do not. I recently let someone convince me otherwise and it has been nothing but a mindf*ck. The words that came out of their mouth said I was a super friend, but by action, I was rejected over and over. I cannot figure out what the hell they were up to, and that has been a source of anxiety, frustration and humiliation. I can't rule out malice.

I think that applies to a lot on the spectrum, including me.

Were you paying her for her time while she confided in you?