do autists feel lonely?

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Lonely every day. Hard to express how much it hurts.

It depends. If it's forced aloness then yes, but if it's wanting to be alone then no.

This.

I have a hard time making friends simply because I fear that I might make myself seem like a fool to them, and even if I manage to talk to them quite a bit, I wonder sometimes if they truly consider me a friend or just some guy that they talk to every now and then.

On the other hand, I don't mind being alone sometimes. The isolation can be useful for me, just so I can think and relax a bit and all that jazz. So for me, its about 50/50 if that makes sense.

I feel even lonelier than ever now that my two friends have moved away to university this month.

I do have other friends, but we don't have much in common and their not that close. I rarely see them. I do feel lonely. Sometimes it hurts. Other times it doesn't.

I'm sometimes lonely for more socializing but mostly I'm fine on my own and with my boyfriend.