Do you have any friends online or offline?

[hoping to lose hope]

i have a few in both categories but i feel so fundamentally different to anyone i meet, i often end up staying isolated from my friends out of fear that they would not like me if i complained about my pain tbh

That is a real shame and a feeling learnt from your past that makes it even more sad.
Trust me on this- it is possible to find a friend to accept you how you are no matter if you can only deal with interacting once a week etc.

I have one or two online friends that i am making

This is nice as online friends can be such special people and are real friends 100%.
Do you think it is going well? thingas crosssed XXXX

Does my dog count as an offline friend? Because he is absolutely THE best.

yes your dog counts totally dogs can be soo sweet.

 

[demuic]

I have only one friend that I met offline, most of the time we just talk online because we went to school together and we don't meet often offline.

No online friends.. I've had a few in the past but always end up losing touch, because we'd usually only about certain interests like anime and then run out of things to say.. I also tend to ghost people due to social anxiety, and I find socializing to be exhausting in general. Even if I would like to have more friends, there aren't many people I can really connect with.

 

[Homecoming]

I dont't have any IRL friends, but I found too many here

 

[LONE WOLF.]

I have one online friend and one furry online friend both of whom l hope to stay friends with until the end, No physical friends, and one furry Best Mate!

 

[purple꿈]

i have tons, online and offline. but because of the pandemic I haven't been talking to my offline friends apart from class,, my online friends however are very active so I talk with them a lot

 

[Tortured_empath]

Yes I would say so

 

[GenesAndEnvironment]

I have one friend on here and one friend-ish on here. Then there are some people I could turn into friend-ishs on here, probably. IRL I don't have friends or friend-ishs. Don't want them either, but gf would be cool and impossible. Last week or so I have gone into incel-mode again and am craving romance lol, very painful and I am not sure why it comes in waves like COD zombies.

 

[Sprite_Geist]

Neither. Pretty much everyone in the real world that I interact with is an acquaintance in my eyes.

 

[shush]

no :) i always run away from everyone

 

[DunnoWhyButYeah]

Online no, I don't think so (anymore). Some people are "friends" but they really isn't and everything is fake what is between us. Irl yes, but I don't want to be with them.

 

[Throwawaysoul]

Nope, I have no friends besides my cats. Being in my 40's and having little to no interest in anything makes it impossible to make friends. I'm ok with it.

 

[heretogethelp]

Yes, but they are not nearly as depressed as I am.

 

[BlankUser]

My boyfriend and my bird are my only friends. I just cut off ties with other people and I'm bad at making friends.

 

[Stargazer100]

Most of my friends are only my friends for a short time, until they lose interest because they figure nothing goes on in my life snd I have no input in their life. I activly push away the very few who stick around.

The people who stick around fall into three categories gor me:
- Say they are your friend but actually rarely show interest. That's not real friendship to me.
- Actually care about me and keep close contact, but don't understand me, can't really connect with me. I am talking about that person who somehow has a crush on me but who isn't someone I want anything with. Or a person who wants to be my best friend because she doesn't really have many friends. I don't want to be loved or cared about by someone who doesn't really know who I am.
- someone who does know me and can understand me and genuinely cares a lot. These are the only ones I don't push away. But these people are so rare.

So no, currently I don't have any friends, because I pushed the last few away. And that's how I like it. I prefer being alone over having friends who I don't feel comfortable with.

 

[motel rooms]

 

[FuneralCry]

I'm too much of an introvert really to have proper friends. Humans are just disappointing in my opinion and I prefer cats.

 

[Journeytoletgo]

Yup. Well I mean I do but I rarely see them maybe once a year. The cause of my issues is genetics (acne) people are repulsed by this, although it calmed down caused me emotional issues from the mean comments I received. And low social skills not being able to make new friends. I truly missed out on my youth. It sucks I can't wait to end myself. Free from all these memories, looks, low social skills, being socially awkward. This is my final year there is no way I'm living past this to continue this misery. CTB will make me free I cannot wait, I'll be free forever writing this in tears. It makes me so happy there is a way out of this BS know one even asked for

 

[Mr2005]

You are all my friends except those of you that aren't

 

[SentientCreature]

Nope, I spend so much time alone that I've almost forgotten how to interact with people. There's no point in forcing it either, there should be some spontaneity if the friendship is to last and mean anything.

But I'm getting increasingly intolerant and tired of being around people. The inevitability of social interaction(say in a school or work environment) is one of the many reasons I'm opting out of existence soon.

 

[depressed21]

I am so shy that I have not been able make any friends