@Epic_Null @mttaggart No ammount of nice or polite or willing to give anything a try can get me past acquaintance.

Ok this one is on me for not delineating. I made no difference between "acquaintance" and "friend". In this respect I completely agree with you. I have (and had) lots of acquaintances, but maybe only a handful of friends. Even now.

@Epic_Null @mttaggart So I'm going to push back on this a bit because I faced the same neurodivergent issues growing up (and this is not to diminish your experiences at all), but here's the difference: I'm a PoC who grew up in a predominantly white town. I was already getting targeted and picked on for being an "other" so making friends and being generally pleasant to be around became a survival tactic.

Having said that, most of my friend groups were with other PoC's or people from other cultures because we were already outcasts so it was easier. But growing up in an environment where everyone is different from you made it far easier to both connect with people later on in life, share a sense of community across all of our cultures, and just generally be more sociable. Most other cultures are quite welcoming and the sense of family and community can be quite strong. It's really only the white people that I know who look at everyone else as a potential threat (and even then, it's especially true of white Americans.)

@da_667 I don't really talk about it but I've got my own set of medical issues that so far no doctor has been able to figure out yet. Multiple blood tests, CT scans, and MRI's show that every organ in my body is fine and at this point I'm just taking note of any little weird thing that happens to me in the hope that I can collect enough evidence to point to some kind of diagnosis. I do occasionally get light-headed when I stand up and was attributing it to something else but now that you mention blood pressure I will definitely check that out.

Thank you for the insight and I hope your health gets better.

@da_667 I feel like this has been the root of my micro-blackouts and dizzyness spells when I stand up because my body is struggling to deliver blood.

Hmm...I should probably check my blood pressure.

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@0x00string You'll find that they will often throw up their arms and put all of the owness on god to tell them how to act or what to do. As if they do not have/want any agency in their own world and would rather be directed around like a marionette.

It's pretty pathetic when you think about it.