AlanTuring wrote:
We can be fairly high-maintenance as friends. No blame - that's just the way it is.
Friends who have stuck with me through the years have apparently found more than enough good stuff in me to carry us over my dark times and social awkwardness.
I went through a phase where I desperately needed to make friends, and I was successful, but many of those friendships did not stand the test of time, and I let them fade.
I have a few people whom I count as very good friends, and being in their lives and having them in mine makes me happy.
I think our impression of friends is the same. Friends should be a utility, not a statement. No point being around people you don't have strong connections with. Same with NTs, same with us. Using each other to travel the long road of life is why Humans manage to get to the end at all, as company, as assets, in order to share the load. People who use friendships as a statement, even Standard Humans, don't last.