Today, I was thinking again how I literally haven't had any real life friends for years. I know I don't interact with others much, especially recently, but why am I even ignored at school? Do I deserve this like people keep saying? I really like my online friends but why does everyone but me have someone IRL? FML
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Wild Nights Out
Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
Today, I have no close friends, only "people I know and occasionally talk to." I have no idea how I got here, and how to re-socialize back. FML
Today, I can't make friends. Every community event I go to, I'm the youngest person by decades, everyone I exchange contact info with in person never messages me back, and people I meet online ghost me before we get past "How are you?" I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I just want friends. I'm so fucking lonely. FML
Today, I confirmed just how excluded I am by my very few friends. My messages in the group chat were completely ignored, yet another person was answered by multiple people within minutes. At least solitude can't let me down. FML
Today, I kept restarting my internet, wondering why I wasn't receiving any messages from my friends. Then I realized they were all ignoring me. FML
Today, I've had to accept that, despite my efforts to stay in touch with the few friends I made at college, I have zero friends. FML
Today, I found out that no one actually likes me as a friend. They only like me to get answers for schoolwork. How did I find out? They were talking about it in front of me. Apparently I'm also invisible to them. FML
Today, after growing tired of my friends group leaving me behind every time and having secrets between them, I started to ignore them and stopped following them, without saying anything. They haven't spoken to me since, and it's been 7 months. I'm alone. FML
Today, I've noticed a pattern with my classmates: Every time a new student shows up, they are treated by my classmates as though they've known each other for years. Everyone except me. When I first came along, I was more or less a wallflower. No one wanted anything to do with me. The same is true today. FML
Today, it's been a year since I graduated high school and nobody, not even my own friends, has hit me up since then. I may as well be dead to them. I was in a band, but I'm now realising they only pretended to be nice to me since I was the only person in the school who knew how to play bass. I haven't talked to a soul other than my family and myself since. FML
Today, I wrote a Facebook post venting about the horrible things I've been going through lately, hoping my friends would console me. I discovered that my English teacher from 30 years ago, the creepy dude who keeps asking me out, and some random chick I don't even know are my only "friends." FML
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sirrubberduckie 37
Sometimes it takes a while to find people who are similar to you and share your interests, and it's even tougher to do that if you're restricted to people who just happen to be around you, like at school. That's a pretty small pool to choose from. You meet more people as you go through life, and eventually you'll find ones you like.
Vexillum 6
Part of it isn't your fault, a lot of things out of our control have contributed to societal atomization, stuff as car dependency, rising cost of living, and disappearing third places (a third place is the place you voluntarily frequent besides home & school/work) I don't know if you've done anything to warrant blame, but rest assured you're not the only thing to blame
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sirrubberduckie 37
Sometimes it takes a while to find people who are similar to you and share your interests, and it's even tougher to do that if you're restricted to people who just happen to be around you, like at school. That's a pretty small pool to choose from. You meet more people as you go through life, and eventually you'll find ones you like.
Vexillum 6
Part of it isn't your fault, a lot of things out of our control have contributed to societal atomization, stuff as car dependency, rising cost of living, and disappearing third places (a third place is the place you voluntarily frequent besides home & school/work) I don't know if you've done anything to warrant blame, but rest assured you're not the only thing to blame