do you feel like you have no friends ever?

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i always feel like ill never get married or have friends.

ill probably end up alone forever.

i have a few friends but they will most likely be gone after high school.

then its back to being alone.

i actually almost started to cry before i made this post.

I will 42 this year and I have not had any friends for most of that and I have never been in a relationship either.

That is why a lot of people on the spectrum have hobbies.

I thinking about a more detailed reply but for now I just want to you to understand your not alone in this .

I've always had friends, but sometimes I feel like I've never had friends that I can trust and who really know me. Partially because of my extreme shyness when I was younger. It's especially hard to make friends in real life.

I have no friends at all. I do have acquaintances.

I have been married and such. It is possible. But, I am currently separated from my third wife, so I would not say I am successful.

There are much better examples of that success here. They are lower functioning and still have improved very, very well and have, what I would call, normal lives when looked at from the outside.

I just say to be not so hard on yourself. And, sometimes, wanting that cake and eating are not the same.

Probably, it's an ugly situation.

It's not the end, people come and go. I have made that experience myself numerous times.

I was never in a relationship either and I don't have any face-to-face friends at all anymore.
Even when I had friends, they were very few, the friendships somewhat felt more and more shallow with time, most didn't even last long and at some point, interests and mentality simply parted too much so we lost track of each other about a year or two before my time at school ended. I felt secluded and couldn't connect with them anymore. Though to be honest, I never felt like I could tell them just anything - like it seemed to be common in (NT-)friendships - before that either, somewhat feeling like a second pick of a friend at times as well. I'm not even sure if those weren't just acquaitances.
Maybe it was an issue of trust on my end as I've been betrayed, talked behind my back and bullied before by people who I have first assumed were my friends. Maybe I just don't or didn't grasp the concept of friendship at that time.
And then again, it's also not uncommon that people just part ways after school, so I somewhat saw it coming too.

However, I do have online friends by now if you count those I found through mutual interests online and who are about just as odd as I am. Funny enough, some are officially diagnosed with ASD too and it's a pleasure to talk about common issues and coping strategies.

Obviously, it's very different from having direct contact, especially when you communciate in English through chat despite it not being your native language, them being in different timezones, etc, but yes, I would consider them good friends.
I feel like they were seeking contact with me though, so I guess I must be really bad regarding friend-making skills. Must have had a lot of luck too.
Unfortunately, it limits a fair share of activities you can do together to chatting and online gaming, especially due to the distance. I'm also not comfortable with any kind of voice chat and don't have a headset either.
Sometimes, I would feel like talking to them in person, but in the end, I'm somewhat afraid it (meeting up in some way) would "ruin it" in a way that it just wouldn't be the same afterwards.

So in short:
Real life friends: No. I don't have these anymore and not sure if I ever will have them again.
Online friends: Yes. I does feel different though, but not necessarily bad! If you wish, I can elaborate on that in a later post.

It's not impossible, but I feel like I was pretty lucky anyway given my character. It only really happened that I made online contacts because I signed up on some forums of my interests years ago. Not much later and I wouldn't have even met them. Long story, various reasons.
All I can suggest in case you should really end up losing friends and having troubles bonding on a personal, face-to-face level, could be to seek forums of whatever interest you may have, participate in discussions, have exchanges with other users. Eventually, someone might approach you or you could approach someone you have had many vivid and pleasant talks with in threads.
Be aware this may take some time to develop though.


Sorry for such an overly long post. I just wanted to make clear to you that even if you end up losing your current friends, they didn't have to be the last ones you will make and friendships might come in ways you would never expect - at least I didn't expect it that way.
I hope this is in any way motivating for you.

None. I started wonedring if I had friends when I thought I did.

Problems to have friends: need of lots of alone time, bored easily if not my interests in the table.

Now I have group work acquaintances and one called me 3 times within 24h, that's something I can't do. Small talk is ok once a week within group work.

As for a relationship that would work it would be based on intellectual stuff/passions and aloofness from them in a way. Like Pierre and Marie Curie. Lol

I've never had a group of friends. I feel more comfortable with just one person. The friends I have now don't know each other, if that makes sense, and are different ages. But they are decent people to have in my life, including my partner.

When I was ages 12-14 I literally had no friends at all. I was rejected and just unimportant. All the girls in my class hung out together at school, and I just joined them because I didn't have anybody else to hang out with, even though I knew they didn't really want me there. I made some friends when I got to year 10, but all they did was argue and fall out with each other and get me involved. But I still preferred that to being totally alone. Because at secondary school you do get bullied if you're seen on your own too much, by kids who don't know you, so I just stuck with these bitchy girls, and by year 11 I was like "oh well, this is my last year at school now, so I will just put up with these stupid mind games of my so-called friends." It actually made my social life a little interesting, if I'm honest.

I have no friends outside my parents and my dog.

Doesn't bother me. Tried having them in the past only to be stabbed in the back. I'm fine without them.