I mean no disrespect by this, but you've been making these kind of posts forever. I never did ask, but what's the point in collecting all this information? Not that they're bad posts—I actually think they're quite nice and have a lot of room for engagement. I was just curious.
Regardless, I've been thinking about this exact question lately, and I think the question is a tough one to answer. What actually constitutes 'friendship?' Maybe I'm just autistic or something, but I feel like it's a rather blurry line between 'stranger,' 'acquaintance,' and 'friend.' What makes one kind of friendship insincere, and the other 'genuine?' I would have liked to choose 'I have a good few friends,' but I don't know how true that is. If anything, I treat my relationship with most of you on here as something more familial—as if you were my brothers—but not as a friendship, if that makes sense?
But even then, I'm not delusional nor entirely stupid—there's only so much of a connection you can form with people on here considering we know practically nothing about each other. Some of us really are being deceitful with who we present ourselves as, and there's no way to gauge who that may be. Therefore, there's always this layer of distrust that everyone on here naturally possesses.
That is all to say, I think it's an entirely different case from standard 'friendship' as we understand it in the modern world...
Most of the people I grew the closest with were all from when I first joined—and practically all of them no longer visit. I find it hard making those same connections with others here today, since I suppose I just come off as rather odd to others for various reasons. I type strangely, I think strangely, and I lack many of the life experiences other have, leading me to be unable to really relate to them.
It's quite tiring.
