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Hutetu

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Hello my name is Elisabeth. I have been officially diagnosed with aspergers. Sorry for my english btw it is not my first language.

I have always struggled with making and keeping friends. For me friendship have always been something i have not understood how people have managed to make so easily. I feel every contact i have with someone whatever they are friends/ boyfriends just end up drifting apart. I now do not have any friends at all, but it is not too bad either, because i am very introverted and i like spending time doing the things i like to do, but sometimes i wish i had someone to talk to.

I struggle with eye contact and appearing confident in conversations. I feel i always look so shy and so low in confidence.

My hobbies are anime/ video games and i also spend a lot of time going to the gym (pretty much every day) I enjoy life i just do not understand the social part of it and how to make friends, how to keep a conversation going etc...

This is me hello! :)
 
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Hello there and welcome to the greatest forum online to date.

If you have not mentioned that English was not your first language, I would not have known, since your spelling is spot on ie absolutely no spelling mistakes. I am English and get stuck with the vowels lol

Well, based on your profile of what an aspie is, despite me not being fully diagnised, I am pretty sure that when I get seen next month, they will say I have aspergers.

My husband says that I do not have trouble making friends ( beg to disagree), I just seem to have no idea to keep friends.

At the wonderful ( sarcasm) again of 47, I still miss the mark on friendships and what I deem as normal to say, is taken as inappropriate, which is downright confusing.

I love the idea of video games, but stay away from them, because of getting obsessed.

Trying to socialise with NT's is hard work and I am only too pleased to be on my own, doing my own thing and hate it when I am interrupted.
 
Well hello... and a huge welcome too....
I'm NT (there's a few of us here...) my partner is an Aspie and my son (no relation to him ) is too (he's 18yrs)
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Hutetu said:
Hello my name is Elisabeth. I have been officially diagnosed with aspergers. Sorry for my english btw it is not my first language.

I have always struggled with making and keeping friends. For me friendship have always been something i have not understood how people have managed to make so easily. I feel every contact i have with someone whatever they are friends/ boyfriends just end up drifting apart. I now do not have any friends at all, but it is not too bad either, because i am very introverted and i like spending time doing the things i like to do, but sometimes i wish i had someone to talk to.

I struggle with eye contact and appearing confident in conversations. I feel i always look so shy and so low in confidence.

My hobbies are anime/ video games and i also spend a lot of time going to the gym (pretty much every day) I enjoy life i just do not understand the social part of it and how to make friends, how to keep a conversation going etc...

This is me hello! :)
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Sorry being Nebby what is your first language?thanks
 
Hiya! Don't worry about the English thing, there are many people on here who don't have English as their first language.
 
Hutetu said:
Hello my name is Elisabeth. I have been officially diagnosed with aspergers. Sorry for my english btw it is not my first language.

I have always struggled with making and keeping friends. For me friendship have always been something i have not understood how people have managed to make so easily. I feel every contact i have with someone whatever they are friends/ boyfriends just end up drifting apart. I now do not have any friends at all, but it is not too bad either, because i am very introverted and i like spending time doing the things i like to do, but sometimes i wish i had someone to talk to.

I struggle with eye contact and appearing confident in conversations. I feel i always look so shy and so low in confidence.

My hobbies are anime/ video games and i also spend a lot of time going to the gym (pretty much every day) I enjoy life i just do not understand the social part of it and how to make friends, how to keep a conversation going etc...

This is me hello! :)
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Hi Hutetu. Welcome to AF!!!

Just about everyone here is a lot like you. We are all weird and have varying degrees of social ineptitide, so you ought to fit right in here.
 
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