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I'm noticed lately that the major part of my "close" friends ALL have some pretty severe "mental" or stability problems, so much so that I'd started thinking that most people have mental problems, but then I just realized that "normal" people are really freaked out by me.

But just to give you a run down:
ADHD
Major Depressive
Paranoid skitzos
Additctive personality, etc

(the majority of my friends have or have had these problems, as well as severly anti social behavior)

so tell me, is this the same for you? How do you avoid going along with bad influences (I have a really hard time with this), etc... Plz tell me your experiences...

Oh, I forgot the major question... Do you seem more likely/inclined to make friends with people with these problems? Is it easier to talk to them, than say, a "normal" person?

My friends, except one, are all without any mental or any disabling physical disorders.

Students with especially mental disorders or mild symptoms of those have sought me out in most schools. I'm sad to say I have made bad experience with that.

I've been bullied by people with disorders mainly. And some of those who apparently wanted to befriend me at first then later either bully or shunned me.

I like popular things, I like being with other people. I've been treated badly by those students who're 'different' for saying I like doing 'normal', being with 'normal people', because to me that is normal and good.

They came to me expecting I should do something, be something, which I wasn't. All I personally frequently met with any disorder from except one who's now my friend would not stop pushing me in the direction they want to. Which is a problem, because nobody can ever push me.

Some of my friends are what society would consider normal, but then some aren't. I have friends with Aspergers (like myself) and they, like me, have some friends that society would consider normal and some that wouldn't be. Some of them are deeply depressed, a couple of them have paranoid delusions through taking too many drugs, I have one friend who has schitzophrenia and a few who self-mutilate. All of my friends, normal in society's eyes or not, are people who, in some way, I can relate to and get along with. This is purely because all of them, even the normal ones, have had some form of life changing experience or are interesting in some way that compels me to be friends with them, as well as the fact they are (or try to be) understanding and have good qualities. I find all my friends easy enough to talk to although I find my aspie friends to be very easy to talk to for the obvious reason that we can fully relate to each other.

Well, I don't like "normal" people. I always preferred schizo, depressed, sociopathic, or very clever people as friends.
Normal people are boring, have silly wishs, they like stupid stuff and can't handle a conversation: they become scared about the things I talk (and I talk about a lot of subjects).

Yep, my friends are mostly pretty weird as well as very few. And they always have been the weirdos, dropouts, druggies etc.

I have "normal" friends and some with generalized anxiety, panic disorder, ADD and some with learning disabilities. I have one friend whose blind.

I do tend to make friends with people who have issues. Not all of them have diagnoses, nor do they necessarily fall under any (well, then, these days anyone's diagnosable with something...). My earlier friends in life, almost all of them had something, be it Asperger's, ADD, mild retardation, or otherwise, but this was mostly because I was going to a school that was more or less a refuge for kids who couldn't get into any other private school due to problems. These days, my friends are hardly "normal," but aren't really in those categories. Most of them just have issues because of their backgrounds, not because of their brain chemistry or neurotype. What can I say, I find it difficult to relate to normal people for long periods of time.

One of my friends has anxiety problems, than I have a friend with ADHD.

I still don't know how to be safe... sometimes bad people look like frindly to me...

Well, my boyfriend has Asperger's, my best friend doesn't have anything going on with her as far as I know. She's not super social or anything, but she's 'normal' enough I guess and I have one other friend/acquaintance who I also think is pretty normal... She says I'm really weird, though.
Other than that I don't really have any friends.

I prefer being friends with other Aspies.

I wish I knew someone aspie, the more I read the better I feel, like I want to cry becuz I dont feel so secretly insane, like I was really worried.

anyway, even when I was little, most of my friends were different, with like ADD, my best friend had downs syndrome, stuff like that.