He's not exactly a friend per se but I'm hopeful.
He, his wife and my wife went to school together and recently she (my wife) ran into them at a store and thought he and I would get along well as we have a lot of interests in common. She arranged it so that we would be facebook friends.
After some back and fourth between us, I've decided to write an ice-breaker message.
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hi there. I kind of sense that you don't like long-winded messages so I'll try to keep it brief.
I keep trying to figure out how to go about arranging a meet and greet, maybe have the kids play while we get to know one another and maybe you two and Cel could catch up.
See, I have something called Aperger's Syndrome. I'm not using that as an excuse or a crutch for anything, I'm simply stating that so you might have an understanding when I don't really know what I'm doing in terms of meeting new people and being friends with them. Don't know if you're familiar with it or not but one of the defining characteristics is inability to make or maintain friendships. Not for lack of trying or anything. Just ignorance of what to do or say or what NOT to do or say (which is invariably the case with me).
That having been said, my thoughts are that maybe once the meet and greet is out of the way, maybe we could hang out some afternoon and build a model. If you're not into that, I could show you. See, that's one of the things I think is involved with a friendship, I can show you something I'm interested in and please, show me something you're interested in! I'd love to learn!
All this probably would have been better said in person and I may very well repeat it to get the inflection across.
Until then, please consider Barnes and Noble or McDonald's playplace as possible meeting up spots.
Take care.
What do you think?
22 Dec 2010, 2:33 pm
