I was like this. I was diagnosed at 28 years old, and now I’m 39. The last remnants of my extroverted tendencies are dying, though. I recently had two friends ghost me because of trauma influenced behavior that I was experiencing. People pretend they’re tolerant of autism riiiiiiiight up until something genuinely difficult happens. Then you get to see how your “friendship” was based on a masked version of you and therefore completely fake.
Someone I thought I had a 20 year “friendship” with ghosted me with zero explanation after I moved 1600 miles across the country to live closer to. My extraverted tendencies cause more harm than the loneliness that comes with introversion. It’s just not worth it.
I was like this. I was diagnosed at 28 years old, and now I’m 39. The last remnants of my extroverted tendencies are dying, though. I recently had two friends ghost me because of trauma influenced behavior that I was experiencing. People pretend they’re tolerant of autism riiiiiiiight up until something genuinely difficult happens. Then you get to see how your “friendship” was based on a masked version of you and therefore completely fake.
Someone I thought I had a 20 year “friendship” with ghosted me with zero explanation after I moved 1600 miles across the country to live closer to. My extraverted tendencies cause more harm than the loneliness that comes with introversion. It’s just not worth it.