To want to just avoid people as much as I can until I die now

Oh, but of course!

It's not that you're a misanthrope, in fact you're positively drowning in "curated and beloved" relationships.

But most people, the inadequate who don't meet your lofty standards, "suck".

Got it.

I think you've over egged the pudding there.

On the off-chance that this thread is not a joke, I do hope that you consider therapy or the like. I don't think this level of antipathy towards people is at all healthy. You sound profoundly depressed, and you don't need to be.

I bitterly regret living at a time when the world’s population has exploded. In 1900 there were a billion people. By 1960 that had trebled to three billion. It’s now eight billion and heading for ten. Africa’s birth rate is so high the African population is going to double. I yearn to live in a quieter, slower, emptier world. A few weeks ago I took a drive with my dog and found a lovely little woodland clearing. The sun was shining through the Autumn leaves and everything was so beautiful I could have cried. Humans are mad. We just f-ing ruin everything. How long before that bit of woodland is wrecked? As I sat there, instead of bird song I could hear the screeching and exploding of boy racer idiots. The woods near me have been hacked down to make way for a disgusting new estate, and now the fields in the centre of the village are going to be built on. The traffic is a living hell, and it never ends. No matter how many red brick rabbit hutches they jam on top of one another, we always need more, more, more.

I’m becoming increasingly misanthropic as I age. But I don’t think it’s because I hate people (though I do dislike the majority of them). It’s more that I hate the way we’ve swarmed all over the planet.

Yes!!! Love her!

Oh. I love that! That sounds beautiful. ♥️♥️♥️♥️

I’m sort of in agreement with this. I think it boils down to the fact that we haven’t evolved to interact with 100s of different people. I work in an open plan office and absolutely hate it, all the noise and different faces that you recognise but don’t really know. Over thousands of years humans lived in family groups and saw others in the immediate area. Now we can hop in a car/train/plane and see thousands of new people over a lifetime, travel to work and see hundreds of different people daily, have to interact with strangers daily to get things done in life. The human lifestyle has changed rapidly in a shortish space of time, population has grown dramatically, we just aren’t designed for all this interaction and I’m not surprised that a lot of us don’t cope well with it.

The more I meet people, the more I agree op. I used to love people but there’s no ‘characters’ left. Everyone is a clone of another. I do still like meeting people but I’m much more choosy.

I hope that your lifestyle is one of choice rather than necessity. I don't think I can quite articulate how horrendous that would be for me.

Wait. What’s going on? Did I miss something?

bit ironic that the thread is about people being mean. I mean there’s some kind of argument going on

Very uncool. Being a hermit and hating other people is on trend.

I have to sheepishly admit I both volunteer and sing in a choir.

I am so uncool!

Wait! I volunteer!

not sure what you’re saying it for. But jumping on the band wagon! ♥️

I generally like people- I find most pretty nice tbh! However....I have, for the past 12 months been working with individuals (for free - I get paid by the public sector). Although I absolutely work my socks off for these individuals and go the extra mile for them, they very, very rarely show any thanks at all. A simple "thank you" would go a long way. (Im not in healthcare and work with well people)

Well how can you do something as nourishing to the spirit like singing with others if you hate them and they smell huh?

Also your friends aren't very good if they're enabling you to be like this

Please only come to my house if we're going to see each other, wow, that sounds great. I'd love a friend like that. I'd jump at the opportunity to take the time out to travel over so you can tell me how much you hate people.

Me and DH are back watching "old" programmes like one foot in the grave and only fools and I'm so nostalgic. No phone, no internet, family vibes, life seems so much simpler. Bliss. Absolutely our goal as soon as possible is to move somewhere isolated (v.northern Scotland). I don't like meeting people outside of my immediate bubble apart from being polite. I don't like big social gatherings any more, don't like making small talk at work do's. Don't care if I'm unsociable, I consider it not my fault as most people these days are arseholes 🤣

YABU. I thought I would love this and then nearly lost my mind during the covid lockdowns, so now know that doesn't work for me after a week or two of blissful near-solitude.

Oh yes, you're so interesting aren't you

Belong to a choir? No
A sport you do seriously? No
Volunteer for a charity? No

Go onto the internet and tell everyone you hate people in your spare time, yes

Take the car
Shop online
Order takeaways

Sounds like you'll be a profound loss to society

I'm still enjoying it - I'm supposed to be working out!

I get where OP is coming from. I became very reclusive after covid because people were so aggressive. There are definitely some rude and smelly dickheads out there but even I have to concede most people are OK or even very nice when you talk to them.

What I'm confused about though is why OP started this thread when she seems to just be getting irritated/talking down to people and also why she'd go to restaurants if she hates people and food smells.

She sounds depressed rather than unhinged to me, but she insists she is not, so there we are.