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anonymous · 11mo

Belong? I never have. kindergarten, I was the weird kid who liked their plushies, I'd bring small ones to class to play with during recess. like little lizards and the such. one day I lost my favorite lizard, was playing hide and seek with it. but where I buried her in the gravel, someone else came by and took her. elementary was much the same, except just the weird kid. no friends, excluded from the groups. bullies and the such. middle school I changed schools, made a few friends but was still just a drifter between groups. few hangouts but not much to say. none of the shapes open were fit for me. growing up there were no other people or things to play with besides my dogs and eventually chickens. I got to be really good at knowing what they needed or wanted. they were my friends, but I'm "people". highschool, I didn't last a semester before almost flunking due to a few bouts of strep (one really knocked me down a few pegs with 105.6⁰F) and mono. switched schools to one more suited for people with dyslexia and autism and such. made friends. they kept me around, and I thought I'd made friends and fit in. found out after 4 years they only had me around for a joke between friends and didn't like me really. have bounced from group to group since. I. just don't fit. I've changed my shape so many times I don't know what mine is. nowadays I'm just myself that comes naturally. but even then. nothing changes. I don't know what's wrong with me. I never got the instruction manuals it seems.

i fully believe that there are people out there that accept us completely. it’s a statistical probability. there are so many people in the world that i believe you will definitely find someone like this one day. however, yeah… the track record for IRL friends is pretty bad because it’s such a small pool to pick from. we don’t have many IRL friends either, honestly maybe only two that we really consider friends and one we haven’t spoken to in so long. making and keeping friends is one of life’s most confusing struggles as a neurodivergent person. i sincerely wish you the best in this, but if you’d like to talk more about connecting, please feel free to DM me. i think there is always something we can work with.

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