Do NT categorize friendships? Or is it an Aspie thing?
I label people I know as work friends, writer friends, online friends, acquaintances, etc. I don't really consider any of them as real friends. One of my coworkers heard me and she complained saying we were friends. I corrected her. We don't hang out. We don't go shopping together. We don't have any contact outside of work. We don't even go to lunches.
I've seen a few posts referencing acquaintances or categorize friendships to clarify that they aren't really friends. And it has me wondering, is this an Aspie thing?
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Kimberly
I think, although I can't be sure, everyone does this. It is probably because NTs don't talk about it like that. The other weird thing is that NT people don't talk about "relationships" unless it is strictly a romantic one. There doesn't seem to be a good word to use when describing relationships (non-romantic) between people. For example if I say something like "I wonder what the relationship be this person and that person is, I get some strange looks". Maybe it is just me.
I have always classified people I meet as acquaintances. It's an accurate representation of the way we interact. If we don't hang out in a social environment on a regular basis, we're not friends. I'm a stickler for semantics.
I think everyone groups people, consciously or unconsciously. But I do so more consciously and with stricter semantics.
NT: "Work Friends", "Social Friends", "High School Friends"
Me: "Work Acquaintances", "(Close) Friends", "Social Acquaintances", "High School Acquaintances", "High School Friends"
Not sure if it's true for all Aspies though.
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