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Cobaltic1978
Way to go ATSers, attack the poor kid, when he is obviously struggling with trying to understand why he is struggling to make friends, seriously!!
I grew up never being around other people, by the time I got to know names we moved again..so I don't know a lot about making friends and have zero...but I have learned a lot about the way things are and for me i simply cannot compromise in order to maintain what appears to me fake friends anyway. Hold out for the right people ones who truly mesh with who you are. Were you home schooled because of religious reasons? From just what you wrote, which can't tell people a whole lot, I would guess one of two things. 1. You are trying to hard and that scares people. In this case Hold back and go slow when you start to get to know someone interesting. Let them lead and learn about them, don't share a lot about yourself. 2. There is something about you and or your family that when it is learned scares people off...major religious or moral codes (like I have) really makes it hard to find compatible friends.
I have no idea what it could be. If it were me that it was happening to, I'd attribute it to malevolent entities. No sarcasm intended. One has attached itself to you and wants you completely for itself.
Logos23
Cobaltic1978
Way to go ATSers, attack the poor kid, when he is obviously struggling with trying to understand why he is struggling to make friends, seriously!!
Reading the OP's post's, he is a she. And I think your comment was a bit harsh as most people who have replied have not attacked her but rather have dealt with her kindly and given some real good advice and constructive possibilities.
HappyWarrior
Jesus Christ, you know your crazy when you start blaming the government for not having friends.
wutdouthink
Hi, first a little about myself. I am in my early 20's, I was homeschooled, and I am currently studying in college and I live in the u.s.
I have a bit of a problem it would seem. I have no friends. And I have not since I was about 8. I used to have a decent amount of friends until I turned 8 and then I pretty much lost them all due to different reasons (moving away, drifting apart, etc) it was very hard trying to keep friends when you are homeschooled.
So I went without any friends. I then tried to make online friends, which goes okay at first but then they start ignoring me for no reason. In fact all of my facebook messages end with me asking “hey, whats up, wanna skype?” and I know they have read my messages because they post stuff on their walls after I sent them a message. So I know they have received the message and are just ignoring me. I thought “maybe that's just how ALL online friends end up”.
I then started my first job at a fast food restaurant 3 years ago (absolute torture), I tried to make friends, but everyone ignored me just like a real life version of facebook. Literally. In fact sometimes I would ask them something and they would just ignore me. In fact it was so obvious that once someone saw me being completely ignored and he said “don't be so rude, you know you heard her ask you something”.
I tried being friendly with EVERYONE there, but only one of them showed any interest in me whatsoever. I thought I might try to date him seeing how he was single. He did show some interest in me at first, but then MYSTERIOUS after agreeing to my first date ever, begun to ignore me altogether (in real life and on facebook). I thought WTF maybe “it's just the people here”, so I quit and went to college. I am currently doing the best in my whole class so I know I am not “retarded”.
Well, needless to say college has been no different then facebook and fast food. I have had 4 guys show interest in me and then just ignore me. It is literally like a pattern.
But this time it is worse because I was actually able to get one of the guys to take me out to diner about 5 times, and now he is completely ignoring me. He ignores all of my texts and facebook messages. And my mom is making a big deal out of me going out to dinner again (I haven't told her about him ignoring me, and I really don't want to). So now I am going to have to make up a reason about why we don't go anywhere anymore. Very awkward and depressing.
But like I have said before, it is almost like a pattern, 1)first they show interest, 2)then they begin ignoring me. It never fails to end like that.
I have some explanations:
(1) I am jinxed.
I don't find this likely since I am not a religious person anymore. But I will put this here anyway.
(2) It is simply my awkwardness.
Possible, but I really don't feel like I am that awkward anymore.
(3) The government is messing with me.
This is the reason I joined. I have started to wonder about the very real possibility of me being an MKULTRA 2.0 victim? I mean, it is almost like everything goes normally until the gov brainwashes my friend in to not liking me. The pattern would almost fit (step 1, I make a friend), (step 2, he likes me), (step 3, and then ZAP the gov gets him with with a mind control device).
But I suppose the question is why? What purpose would it serve? Drive me insane? Maybe I am just experiment #1764.74457.98870.4?
And does anyone know of any tech that could be used to accomplish this? ELF? HAARP?
(4) The multiverse theory.
Assuming the multiverse theory is true, that could explain it. For those of you who don't know what the multiverse theory is, it is simply an accepted scientific theory. It says for every possibility, there is a universe where everything is possible. For example there is a universe where Mozart leaves his Lunar colony to support General George Washinator in his war against the giant mutant evil ninja turtles in 2104. Pretty much everything is possible with the multiverse theory. So it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine a universe where I am forever friendless no matter what I try.
So what do you guys think is causing people to ignore me for no reason? Just remember my pattern:
1)first they show interest
2)then they begin ignoring me
3)repeat with different guy, go back to step 1
WTF?