Do you have someone(s) that you can talk to personally?

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Not really, just a little bit. I'm pretty confident that it'll turn out okay when I meet them; I'm very close with some of them.

Yes, I am fortunate to have a counselor on a hot-line (for an issue other than AS) who works the midnight to 8am shift. She doesn't mind how much I call and how much I perseverate. Sometimes I ask her why she puts up with me. But she has been a life line when things got really rough.

I have some non aspie friends and some aspie friends as well but I dont have any really close friends. Although for my upcoming birthday I am going out with a couple of seperate groups of them.

I have two people who i am eternally grateful for having. The first is, ironically enough my ex, who's also my closest friend. Although she's not quite as tolerant as the second, she's always there for me even when the situation is awkward else distressing. Hell, after our breakup and her going out with another guy, because i wasn't over us (still aren't to tell you the truth), she tried her best to make life easier for me. However, she's got her own problems atm and in the case of a few of mine, because of our history i just don't feel comfortable with talking with her at times. She's a double-edged sword, but often she's the one who stays with me when everybody else has basically told me to F-off.

The second is another close friend of mine who is absolutely amazing. Her empathy levels are through the roof, as she managed to pretty much describe to me everything that was going on through my mind just this week merely by using educated guesses and observations. I can talk to her about everything and she has the ability to weigh up the arguements and help me get my head straight. Downside? She can be very airheaded at times and a little too optimistic for her own good, not that that's a real problem.

I dunno, i'm lucky in that i found a bunch of fellow freaks/outcasts who'd accept me on the initial pretense of there being strength in numbers from the rest of the world and then proceeding to make relationships out of those relationships. Hell, we've even got another diagnosed autistic among us, and it may well be that my ex has aspies as well (a chance mind, it's about 50/50 that she has it)

I wish I had an Aspie friend...

Trust me, sometimes.. you don't. Me and the other aspie member of the group i belong to get along like cat and dog.. we're practically at each other's throats. It just goes to show that even with other aspies you can still hate one another's guts, as it's more to do with personality than what problems people have

I see. I like NTs more though, as Aspies tend to confuse me.

My human anatomy teacher, who studies autism and has had autistic students. .... she's a special lady and I've only known her for around 5 weeks...

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No. Ironically, when you really need to talk to people, to lay it out all on the line, people get put-off. Its a little too much for them to handle. Most people say they want to really know the other person, but that just means, "I want to know as much as I feel comfortable with". Then when someone decides to end it all, everyone stands around saying to each other, "if only they had come to me". Yeah right. Another persons death only makes us think more about our own mortality, not about the other person, as much as we would like to think that it doesn't. When someone has to talk deeply about living through depression everyday, and needs to lean on people, everyone tends to distance themselves from that person. But, should that person pass away, only then do people feel bad. Farked if you do, farked if you don't.

I don't blame anyone though. I am the same way. Its human nature. I don't suppose anyone has a cure for being human around here?

I talk to my brother.

My sisters are good to talk to, and there's one guy who I've been friends with since high school.

God. Other than that, nobody at all.

My brothers and sometimes my mom.

One better than me.

Different friends for different issues. Don't got anybody I could open up to though. I think they'd be a bit put off.

I have no one I can talk to

it is really hard some days, eventually I'll either find someone to talk to or learn to deal with it

most the people I used to talk to online stopped talking to me when I started sharing my obsessions with them because they don't understand that I'm an aspie, I've told them, I've linked to the wiki page and the dsm definition, but alas, no help

can't talk to my family at all

and I don't have any contact with outside people