Anyone else struggle with friendship?

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This has been a pattern for me for a long time. I always had friends in my childhood and as a teenager but after that have had no luck. I have done the usual like joining clubs, taken up hobbies etc but have had so much bad luck with people. I have either been bullied or ghosted. It's only recently after discovering that I'm autistic that so much makes sense about why I struggle so much in friendship, but either way it's soul crushingly lonely a lot of the time and it's hard to not internalise things. Anyone else struggle with this?

I struggle with this too. I‘m on a really long waiting list for an adult ASD assessment because I want to know why. I just don’t „get“ most humans amd haven’t since I was little. I had some friends through a fairly unusual group activity for about a year before moving countries and that was so nice.

I struggle with friendships too. As a child, I could not make any at all. Was always seen as a weirdo. As an adult, I feel like I must have come from a different planet.
I do have a few close friends, but they are a bit weird like me too.

I struggle too, I have ASC and you're not alone x

Are you able to join a local autism service and meet friends and like minded people that way? Or a local buddy system if one exists in your area?