u/Zestyclose_Show_2025

I had no friends in high school due to me being a loser with serious autism and extreme mental illness and zero social skills whatsoever. I’m so glad that I never have to interact with any of those rotten scumbags from my grade again and I’m so glad that I haven’t seen any of them in nearly 20 years, but due to the conditions that I have, I still have a very hard time making friends as no one wants to be friends with a loser like me, the moment someone sees me, he or she knows there’s something wrong with me and doesn’t want to be my friend. I just look, walk and talk a certain way and people just know. So therefore I never have anyone to talk to except for people here on Reddit.

Did anyone else here have no friends in high school?Why was that? Were you able to make friends after high school despite that? If so, how did you do it?

As someone who drives for work, it seems like every year I get stuck behind more and more drivers who drive so timidly and seem to be extremely scared while operating a car. I’ve wasted so many hours of my life getting stuck behind drivers who go way under the speed limit, stop short for every little thing, take the slowest turns I’ve ever seen in my life, slow down at green lights, stop at yellow lights, the list goes on. I first started driving when I was 15 years old, and even then, I can’t remember a single day of that year where I was scared of driving for even a single second. Im not even a talented person at all, not in the slightest, and I still was very comfortable with driving on my very first day. Since then, not once have I ever been scared of driving. Yet there are grown adults my age or older than me who have been driving for years and are still extremely terrified, to the point that they have no problems at all holding up other drivers behind them. I used to drive better than some of these grown adults even when I only had a permit at 15 years old, and again I’m not a talented individual whatsoever, I’m just an average Joe.

So I have a washing machine that’s over 15 years old, and about 2 months ago, the lock switch broke, said the technician who came to look at it. He gave me the part number and I ordered it online. A month later the new lock switch broke and I ordered another one. Today, the lock switch I ordered a month ago broke. So now I’ve gone through 3 lock switches in the past 2 months, so something keeps breaking them and I don’t know what. The last time a technician came, he couldn’t figure out what was killing the lock switch each time, all he knew was that the part was broken and had to be replaced.

I’m at my wits end here and don’t know what else to do. I really don’t want to buy a new machine for many reasons. They’re too expensive, new machines aren’t designed to last as long as old machines, all the major brands have thousands of bad reviews on many websites, and I can’t find one machine that I can trust to last forever. Also buying a new machine is basically just giving up and taking the easy way out, which is a loser and cowardly mentality, and I don’t want to give up without a fight and be known as a loser and coward. What else can I do though?

I got the iPhone 17 pro a couple months ago, and the other day I noticed that RCS messaging wasn’t working and everything was sending as an SMS, so I went into RCS messaging settings and noticed that it says “waiting for activation” under the switch that turns RCS messaging on. I have tried literally everything possible. I restarted the phone tons of times, wiped it clean and restored tons of times, reset network settings tons of times, signed out of Apple ID and back in tons of times, turned off the phone line and back on tons of times, turned off RCS messaging for long periods of time, updated to the latest software, nothing. I’ve been on the phone with Verizon customer service multiple times and they’ve tried a whole bunch of things on their end, as well as had me try a bunch of things on my end, and nothing is working. Every tech I speak with at Verizon customer support is so confused and lost and unsure of what to do except blame Apple. Then every time I bring the phone to Apple, they blame Verizon and send me on my way. Verizon blames Apple and sends me on my way, and it’s just endless back and forth blaming between the 2 companies, no one wants to take accountability. I’m at my wits end here and I’m honestly about to just run the phone over with my truck because I don’t know what else to do, and this is making me extremely angry and ruining my weekend

I ask this as someone who is a severely autistic loser with extreme mental illness, with no friends left whatsoever, and therefore, barely gets to go to any weddings in person, and therefore I never have legitimate plans. Thankfully I have so many Facebook and instagram friends from people I met in middle school, high school and college, so every time one of them gets married and I’m not invited, I have the pleasure of attending their weddings virtually via pictures and videos. If I watch enough of them I really feel like I’m there, that’s why social media is one of the best inventions ever and it has made me such a happy person.

Last Saturday night my former college roommate, who I hate, got married and he had so many friends there who I hate too. It was a beautiful destination wedding in Cancun, and I’m so glad that a lot of pictures and videos were posted because it was so fun to attend virtually without having to deal with all those assholes who I hate, and Cancun looks like such a cool place! I had such a fun Saturday night attending that lovely wedding via Facebook videos and it was one of the most fun Saturday nights I’ve had in a while. I was even playing the music that they were playing in their videos loud on my loud speakers so that I could feel like I was really there living in the magical moment.

I have even better wedding plans for this upcoming lovely Saturday night in a few hours. Tonight, another one of my dear Facebook friends is getting married at this huge castle venue on a gorgeous farm and there’s going to be well over 200 people there, many of whom I went to college with. I wasn’t invited to that one in person either but I cannot wait to follow through with my wedding plans and attend virtually via pictures and videos posted by the happy couple and their wonderful guests. It’s going to be so much fun and I can’t wait to attend virtually without having to interact with anyone who’s there, and there’s going to be a lot of people from my college who I hate there anyway who I don’t have to plan to see, thank god. Even if I’m not there in person, I still get to see the decorations, the dancing, I get to hear the music and see the lights, and if I’m lucky I even get to see the couple kiss and say their vows if there’s sufficient video coverage of the event on social media. I get to do all of this without socializing with any assholes, paying for plane tickets, car gas, hotels, a gift for the couple and anything else I can’t think of right now.

I count weddings attended virtually as weddings that I’ve been to. Whenever someone asks me how many weddings I’ve been to, I just give that person a number. I don’t specify how many of those weddings I’ve been to are in person or virtual, I just give one number and that’s it

I ask this as someone who is a severely autistic loser with no friends left whatsoever, and therefore, barely gets to go to any weddings in person. Thankfully I have so many Facebook and instagram friends from people I met in high school and college, so every time one of them gets married and I’m not invited, I have the pleasure of attending their weddings virtually via pictures and videos. Last night my former college roommate, who I hate, got married and he had so many friends there who I hate too. It was a beautiful destination wedding in Cancun, and I’m so glad that a lot of pictures and videos were posted because it was so fun to attend virtually without having to deal with all those assholes who I hate, and Cancun looks like such a cool place! I had such a fun Saturday night attending that lovely wedding via Facebook videos and it was one of the most fun Saturday nights I’ve had in a while. I was even playing the music that they were playing in their videos loud on my loud speakers so that I could feel like I was really there living in the magical moment. Tomorrow night, another one of my Facebook friends is getting married at this huge castle venue on a gorgeous farm and there’s going to be well over 200 people there, many of whom I went to college with. I wasn’t invited to that one in person either but I cannot wait to attend virtually via pictures and videos posted by the happy couple and their guests. It’s going to be so much fun and I can’t wait to attend virtually without having to interact with anyone who’s there, and there’s going to be a lot of people from my college who I hate there anyway who I don’t have to see, thank god.

I count weddings attended virtually as weddings that I’ve been to. Whenever someone asks me how many weddings I’ve been to, I just give that person a number. I don’t specify how many of those weddings I’ve been to are in person or virtual