Feeling alone

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Tired of feeling so alone all the time and having no friends and not knowing what to say and being single

So..

..go where other people are.

..make at least one friend.

..keep saying things, even if they're the wrong things & you make mistakes, learn from them and continue to improve.

..and eventually meet someone special & don't spend the rest of your life solo.

Just because things are however they are right now doesn't mean that they're going to be that way forever.

Everyone has ups and downs. If I were to take all of the lowest points of my life and put them together and convince myself that the rest of my life was going to be as bad or worse forever then I'd be pretty damned depressed. But I don't do that to myself because I know things get better, and they have, and I'm in a better place now than I've been in - yet still not in as good a place as I know I can work myself towards.. so, I continue to work hard on all the things about myself mentally, physically, financially, friendship & relationship wise etc that I'd like to improve - and bit by bit, day by day, I'm getting better and better. Small increments that seem almost immeasurable comparing one day to the previous, but if I look back 6 months or a year ago.. wow have I ever come a long way! All these good things don't come instantaneously. They take time and effort and hard work.. and it's worth it, because nothing worth doing is easy.

I feel the same way as you.

I have been going out to try and meet people but it's not been working well for me. I don't read things very well so my social interactions really don't move beyond formal polite chit chat. Doesn't seem to matter to me how much practice I get as it seems to be a bit different every time. I still can't read things properly. I had a support worker who said I misread things but I always feel it is people who misread me. It seems no matter where I go I make the same errors over and over again.

I don't know what is socially acceptable sometimes and what is not, what is going to get me accepted and what is not...it keeps changing, so even if I do get a handle on it one time the next its different again (what one group thinks is acceptable another does not).

I think best way through might be the way that to most would seem like giving up and that would be to accept my 'aloneness' and build a life for myself around that. I can be happy alone when I am not feeling lonely. I also started getting rid of any romantic comedy DVDs etc I have as I don't feel I should fill my head full of romantic notions when I am having one of my more sensitive moments. It is very unlikely I can ever have a happy relationship because I can't read my partners intentions properly so I live in a state of constant confusion when I am with someone because I never know where I stand with them and how things are progressing in the relationship. Add into the mix that I don't like my routines etc changed and things get more complicated.

I don't think it's impossible to be happy alone. I am already half way there as although I wanted to experience romance with someone I don't really want to live with them as I like having my own space too much. Now if I can get these silly romantic notions out of my head and get this feeling that I might be missing out on something to go away I will be fine all by myself.

It's an individual thing though, some people can improve their social skills with practice. For me it does not seem to work.

I hate to be negative, but if the OP is like me saying, "just talk" doesn't help because there are no words being formed in my brain, no words will come out of my mouth. I genuinely can never think of anything to say to people. When i go home I think, "oh I could have said this or that," and I kick myself. But when confronted with another person to talk with my mind goes completely blank. You can only get so far with, "How are you? Would you look at the weather?" and then I run out of things to say.



Very true.

That is the exact problem I have with romantic relationships, and friendships too. I feel like I never know where things stand between me and the other person.

I hate it because I don't even know why ppl reject me it just seems like they do

Don't even know if I have AS or what because I try to listen to people and not go on about a special interest but it still seems like I blurt out the wrong thing at the wrong time and make myself look stupid and I've had alot of trouble with relationships it's extremely hard for me to approach someone I'm attracted to so here I am 18 with 1 friend haven't had a date I over a year and stuck sitting at home on the weekends

I wouldn't worry too much at your age.