Friends in primary school

[DesertRose]

When you were first starting school, did you choose people you wanted to be friends with, or attempt to be, that met certain criteria? For instance, I would only seek out those who had been to my home, or knew our family. I also seemed to be drawn to those who appeared to be friendless. It was pretty much the same throughout school, 1 friend, never a group of more than 3, in high school it was only one. Sort of, but not really any "best friends". I hate that term.
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Question: Is this an Aspie thing?

 

[Mr Allen]

When you were first starting school, did you choose people you wanted to be friends with, or attempt to be, that met certain criteria? For instance, I would only seek out those who had been to my home, or knew our family. I also seemed to be drawn to those who appeared to be friendless. It was pretty much the same throughout school, 1 friend, never a group of more than 3, in high school it was only one. Sort of, but not really any "best friends". I hate that term.
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question: is this an Aspie thing?
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Must be, I had a handful of friends in Juniors, and then in secondary the friend I was closest to was my ex GF, we lost touch when we both left school.

 

[Progster]

I didn't have friends in primary school, just classmates.

 

[Nellie]

I used to be drawn to people that didn't have many or any friends and all of the exchange students from different countries. I had friends from India and Korea... It's different now. I'm homeschooled so most of my friends are a lot like me!!

 

[DesertRose]

I used to be drawn to people that didn't have many or any friends ...

Me too. A couple I found out WHY they had no friends, just plain mean to everyone.

 

[Bolletje]

I did not choose friends, people chose me and I just sort of went along with it.

 

[Dalton]

I’ve always just made friends naturally without actually having to “try”. There was this one kid though who’d get bullied & had little to no friends, so I decided that one day I’d sit down with him(he was sitting alone at lunch) and hopefully be able to become his friend. Well i sat down with him chatted a bit and before you know it i was able to have him smiling & laughing which he didn’t do very often, and after that i was eventually invited to his birthday party which was a lot of fun and I still keep up with him to this day.