Quote Originally Posted by thePirate View Post



Haha, why doesn't this surprise me.

Somehow I feel as though you are taking this as a confession that I cannot have friends and that I am not -- in my way -- a likeable person. This is not true and it is not what I am "admiting" about myself. I have extremely good manners and I am nice to people. I am sometimes interested in what they have to say. In short: I'm fairly "normal". There are people who would readily like to be my friend, but I keep my social circle microscopically narrow very much on purpose. People and their problem and quirks stress me out terribly. If I am going to take someone as a friend an, consequently, taking on the burdens of that friendship there has to be an exceptional reason for it. Because my social needs are very, very low and the stress of being a friend outweigh the benefits for me.