I treat friends like interests. Generally, I have less of them than neurotypical people, but I give them way more attention and investment on average. The hard part has been finding people to reciprocate that. It’s weird to think that most people only consider 1 or 2 people friends aside from their partner if they have one. I’ve had points where I was really into D&D and had regular meaningful interactions with dozens of people in a week. And those people would regularly ask people for support or advice or assistance and we had potlucks and it was really wild. Almost everyone was visibly neurodivergent. For me, I don’t think autism inherently made me less likely to have a good support system. It’s been a societal thing. But I also don’t wanna speak for people with different support needs.
Was apart of a nation collective storytelling/role-playing group set in the Wold of Darkness ttrpg. It was called “the Accords” for those interested. Sadly no chapter in my local area anymore :(
Everyone was neurodivergent in someway. It was amazing and I had so much fun and considered each person a close friend. Group sadly had to disband when the old hats who kept track of it and knew how to run a chapter ended up moving for work.
I treat friends like interests. Generally, I have less of them than neurotypical people, but I give them way more attention and investment on average. The hard part has been finding people to reciprocate that. It’s weird to think that most people only consider 1 or 2 people friends aside from their partner if they have one. I’ve had points where I was really into D&D and had regular meaningful interactions with dozens of people in a week. And those people would regularly ask people for support or advice or assistance and we had potlucks and it was really wild. Almost everyone was visibly neurodivergent. For me, I don’t think autism inherently made me less likely to have a good support system. It’s been a societal thing. But I also don’t wanna speak for people with different support needs.
Was apart of a nation collective storytelling/role-playing group set in the Wold of Darkness ttrpg. It was called “the Accords” for those interested. Sadly no chapter in my local area anymore :(
Everyone was neurodivergent in someway. It was amazing and I had so much fun and considered each person a close friend. Group sadly had to disband when the old hats who kept track of it and knew how to run a chapter ended up moving for work.
Oof. Full circle to capitalism being destructive to people trying to build a community
Our system has a funny way of doing that to our loves doesn’t it? Almost like its inherent to the system or something but what do I know right?