Loneliness - making friends as a parent/adult

[tizzy13]

Honestly I feel like I’ve tried everything.
I’m on peanut, I go to 2/3 baby groups a week, I try and make conversations but it just ends with lots of small talk.

I still find myself feeling incredibly lonely. For context I have a 5 year old and 6 month old and have only got one true ‘friend’ - she lives 50 mins away so we hardly see each other.

I live in a GREAT town and would love to make friends locally but I feel like at this point it must just be me? I’m quite socially awkward (suspected on the spectrum) but I am a very nice person and would love to have even just one or two close friends to do things with and have consistent interactions.

I am a single parent and fairly young - 25 had my first at 19 - and I feel sometimes I’m not quite in the same category as other mums or they don’t want to be friends with someone like me. I wouldn’t care if my friend was 30/40/50 but I do find sometimes it puts a stop to conversations when they find out either my age or that I’m a solo parent.

HELP! I just want to find my people 😭

I don't know if there is such a thing, but could you find a neurodiverse mums group locally or some other way to connect with ND mums?

tizzy13
I am so sorry to hear of your struggles. I'm not sure of the answer.

I'm wondering if you don't have much in the way of family.
It can be really difficult to make friends as people often turn to family first and for me this was lacking.
Most of the people I get on with have a neurodiversity. I hope you get to meet some likeminded people.