# No friendsI've written before about friendship and commented on the phenomenon of male loneliness. What really brought it home to me recently was when my wife answered a question in an app about meeting my friends, she just wrote "no friends". Simple and bluntly honest. It's been almost a running joke that that the only people I know outside of work are my wife's friends. But it's not a joke. Not in the slightest. I've always said my big three issues are boredom, frustration, and impatience. But there is a fourth: loneliness. I've always felt … different … for want of a better way of putting it. I now know that this is the autism manifesting. Since leaving school, with relatively few exceptions, I've struggled to truly identify with other people, to find "my tribe". I know they're out there, somewhere, but meeting them is the hard bit. For all the ills of social media, at least it's possible to spark some kind of a relationship with like-minded individuals, even if only very casual…
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