Help me understand my best friend.
Hello! This is my very first post ever. So anyways I am a 18 year old female that has a 19 year old male best friend from Japan who is studying in the U.S.
We first met through Discord which he reached out to me first and then we started getting along. Me and him have similar interests, vibes, music interests, the food that we both like and hate, etc. We do voice calls once in a while and he does have a very Japanese accent and fairly young. I met him back in the middle of December and currently our friendship is still holding strong :)
I have noticed many things such as his little 'www' laughs that made me feel very confused at first then other things about his culture and I shared my own with him as well. Throughout these months of our friendship, I've noticed how distant or rather reserved he is with his stuff (I guess would be the right way to put it..?). He doesn't tell me his real first or last name, where exactly from Japan he came from not wants to share pictures of himself.
I talked to him about it, I confronted him several times but it always ends up shutting them down and saying somewhere the lines of "Why would I do that? Am not of model quality or something to show off." or "there is no purpose os such." or even "it's western culture, they always share too much." it does make me feel suspicious about him but I also believe he doesn't have any ill intent such as asking for money, asking for pictures or where I live.
I don't want to believe he's some fucking 40 year old guy from Discord, I care about him so much, he's helped me through my difficult time on my life currently and even helped me recover from my >!eating disorder.!<But also what kind of 19 year old doesn't use his phone?!
sooo like.... is this a Japanese thing or is it just him? And what can I do about it?
Thanks for reading and I hope this poset makes sense ♡