Being a true friend to someone means accepting them for who they are, not who you want them to be. If they cant manage to do that for you, if they cant see that you're just fine as you are, then that's their problem... not yours.
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Misery
Misery
And really anyone who is making you feel like you arent meant to have friends or something, aint much of a worthwhile friend themselves. You deserve better than that.
Metalhead
Some people are not meant to have irl friendships, namely whoever makes another person feel the way you do.
Kisa the tea
I have no friends offline. There is not a single person in this city I am friends with. But I have good online friends like you. It's sad people have made you feel like you're the problem when you're one of the nicest people there is. You're a great person and anyone who doesn't see that and just puts you down instead doesn't deserve you as a friend.
oregano
I don't have any friends, and I've long since accepted that that's the way my life is going to be. "Normal" people don't want to be around neurodivergent people unless it's to point and laugh at them or gawk at the rare "savant" as if they were zoo animals. They don't want to be around me, so I don't want to be around them.