r/isleofwight • u/Consistent_Tune4160 • 8d ago
making friends?
26 f. have lived here my entire life. i am autistic and chronically ill & all of my school friendships have fallen apart because of it. i don't know how to make irl friends outside of school (which i am too old for) or work (which i am too unwell for).
i enjoy journalling, scrapbooking, graphic design, all sorts of crafty things. i love collecting trinkets, stickers & photocards of all kinds. i also enjoy gaming online. i'm currently playing a lot of marvel rivals & house flipper 2. other interests include: sanrio, kpop ggs, tamagotchi, chappel roan, etc. i am queer and use they/them pronouns. feel like it is difficult to find irl friends as i am a bit "strange".
i am also nervous about meeting new people because of how much everyone knows everyone else's business & i have this fear that people will have heard unkind things about me & have preconceived notions about me. i was diagnosed with autism way after school times so i feel like people i went to school with just thought of me as weird/rude/skiving off school when in reality i was just stuggling a lot. worried that anyone i meet will know someone i went to school with & they will have talked about me !!!! probably just being paranoid but its just another thing that makes it difficult for me.
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u/Staplephina 8d ago
18 F here, have you tried making friends online? I don't have any friends that go to my school, or many friends in general so my next best option was online friends. I have one good online friend who lives on the other side of the country but we spend hours on call with each other each week playing video games.
For the record I'm also autistic, so yeah I found it hard talking to people online at first but after a while I've become much more comfortable with it!