[Rant] My stupid friends.

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Wahad

Wahad

Dave said:
I want to say that's funny, but it's also kinda sad.

You're a good dude, Wahad. I have no idea why you would have no friends. GasBandit I could see because he's a right bastard, but not you.
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Well, I have plenty of acquaintances - study mates, people I talk to online, etc. But I don't do enough with them for them to consider me a friend, or vice versa. Used to have friends in highschool, but lost contact with them after a year or so in college. None of the aforementioned people live nearby, either, so that doesn't help. But now that I am forced to get a job so that I can get a home for myself, this will probably change as I will be out and about more, and live in a more centralized area.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

Wahad said:
Well, I have plenty of acquaintances - study mates, people I talk to online, etc. But I don't do enough with them for them to consider me a friend, or vice versa. Used to have friends in highschool, but lost contact with them after a year or so in college. None of the aforementioned people live nearby, either, so that doesn't help. But now that I am forced to get a job so that I can get a home for myself, this will probably change as I will be out and about more, and live in a more centralized area.
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I kinda know how you feel. I had a bunch of friends in High school too, but I hardly ever see them any more. At most, I have two regular friends that I hang out with. Anyone else is usually a friend of a friend.
 
North_Ranger

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I'm fairly certain I am currently banned from one restaurant because of the actions of my acquaintances.

It's been a tradition for a few years now that when the Medieval Market is just behind the corner, some of us actors go out for a night of dining and drinking. And since that tradition kinda sprung from me and two friends heading out for Italian and some other friends tagging along, it's been my duty to organize the table for our party - now usually between 15-20 people.

Last year some of the older members (i.e. people in their 40s) of our party got a little tipsy in the restaurant, with one of them accidentally cutting himself with broken glass, another accidentally setting the bill on fire when he brought it near the candle flame to see it better. In the end some of them got so loud and raucous we were asked to leave the restaurant. I'm pretty sure they won't let me in the next time, since the table reservation was under my name.

The food was good, though.
 
ElJuski

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I will say this about friends: the one big thing about moving out to a new part of the country is lacking that massive friend base. At home I can, with enough nagging, fill up a bar full of my friends, friend's bands, etc. etc, and make a life-long partnership with the owner next time I need something. Out here in DC I mostly slum it with the few people I know, or I've met, or have dated, or who I work with.

I mean, it's not miserable. But it does really make me appreciate the stupid idiots I end up slumming with back home. Except for Greg, because fuck that guy.
 
North_Ranger

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I had the same feeling when I was doing my exchange year in Ireland. I'm not the most sociable of guys, and I ended up being one of the three internationals who lived in one student village while everyone else lived in another. Made it pretty hard to get to know folks outside school since everyone pretty much made friends with their roommates first and then branched out.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

I wouldn't call this person a friend perse, more or less a friend of my friend. This guy I knew from another guy was giving out five dollar tatoos at my friends place and I was hoping to get one, me never getting one before. Well while I was waiting, this street-punk girl named Margaret who was a friend of the guy who lived there comes barging and asks for a tatoo. The tatoo guy agrees. I didn't object, as I thought it wouldn't take long. It did. Every five minutes she'd get up and talk about something and sit back down. What's worse is that the tatoo was really complicated, it was all arty and a reference to something that I don't think SHE even got. By the time he was finished, the tatoo artist had to go home. So the moral of this story, is that annoying street-punks will ruin your day and they will get away with it because they are friends with your friends. Friends of friends suck sometimes.
 
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So .... I have to ask. I have been biting my tongue about it. Do you have a professional diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome, or is this a self-diagnosis? I ask because I know it was really popular for people with social interaction problems to self-identify as Asperger for a while there. I also have seen diagnosed Asperger sufferers, and I have to say, and they are nothing like socially awkward people. I realize autism is a spectrum, but the Asperger's patients I've come into contact with (through work)--I mean there's obviously something wrong. They're not just uncomfortable in social situations, their daily functioning is hindered.

I don't mean to question you or anything. You just seem very high-functioning.
 
Frank

Frank

Yeah, I worked with a kid with real, diagnosed Aspergers. When he could actually be bothered to go to work he was barely functional. He needed a lot of help that his family basically refused to give him (his dad all but kicked him out). I felt really bad for the guy.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

fade said:
So .... I have to ask. I have been biting my tongue about it. Do you have a professional diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome, or is this a self-diagnosis? I ask because I know it was really popular for people with social interaction problems to self-identify as Asperger for a while there. I also have seen diagnosed Asperger sufferers, and I have to say, and they are nothing like socially awkward people. I realize autism is a spectrum, but the Asperger's patients I've come into contact with (through work)--I mean there's obviously something wrong. They're not just uncomfortable in social situations, their daily functioning is hindered.

I don't mean to question you or anything. You just seem very high-functioning.
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Straight up, professional diagnosis. My first doctor said I had ADD the quack, then my parents learned later I had Aspergers syndrome which explained alot. The twitching, the anti-socialness, the obsessive compulsive habit of counting my teeth(that's not a joke by the way) I had it all.
 
G

Gagaoohlala

Having someone to call a friend, crazy or not, can't be beat. Having few friends suck. And it's hard to make new friends as an adult. Very awkward. I liken it to dating, only worse. So awkward...

Want to go see a movie sometime (sounds like I'm asking her on a date)
want to go grab lunch? (date)
want to come over, play some cards and have a cocktail? (date).

Want to go shopping? (genuine girl time, but not for the poor)

Lame....give me friends, silly universe. I demand...(
 
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