Depression and friendship

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Hi everybody,

This is my first post. I am a 26 year old female with an autistic spectrum disorder, I have always struggled to make friends but made some improvement in my late teens and early 20s by seeking friends online and getting along with some people at university. I graduated from uni three years ago and due to not being able to find work/maintain a job I fell out with friends due to lack of.patience and irritability and stopped keeping in contact with people from university (except for one or two) as they.all found jobs pretty quickly and I felt ashamed. The depression hit me after a.couple of months and now its three years and I have very few friends, feel completely worthless and have gained weight and look ill all the time. Its also affecting me trying to make new friends as a lot of people view being unemployed (esp for this long) as shameful and I feel embarrassed, at least back then i had the whole student excuse for not working. Anybody have.similar experiences? Or advice?

I am so sorry. Do you have any projects from college or any form of internships that you could put together in a portfolio? That way you could find potential employers and e-mail them because it's your work that they want and not you per say.

Also if these were your friends then they would have helped you find a job rather than push you away.

Hey, thanks for the reply. I am unable to even be accepted for an interview for an unpaid internship, ecrn when I spend ages on an application form. Im currently what you call self employed as a tutor with a company started a few weeks ago but ive not bren givrn any work, I thibk its due to the families not picking me to tutor their kids cause of my autism. So I have no income. And my boss should be honest with me. So called friends are caught up in their own lives.

What kind of tutoring are you getting into?

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