No, don't accept that. Make the effort, find people with your interests, enjoy life. I used to think the same; I blocked out everyone who tried to communicate with me at one point. Unless you have something that makes you really intolerable in peoples' presence (e.g., severe Asperger's), then you should be able to find some friends. (Not to say people with severe Asperger's don't find friends, but from what I've been told, they have rather depressing and lonely schooldays). This. Just find someone who doesn't suck at social interaction like me and ~50% of Tif to help you out. My advice: Do what Lent says. Unless he's a liar, he must be a beast irl. Or kranked1, though I haven't seen him in a while. Err... I don't have aspergers. I've been in school with most of the people at my school for at least a year... I don't exactly think lent's idea would work for me :/ I'm pretty sure that everybody either hates me, avoids me at all costs, or just thinks that I'm weird :/ (Unfortunately that's not my low self esteem, it's true >.>) What I meant to say before was that although I'm prepared to live a life isolated from people, I'd rather not. I know that you all keep saying that having friends is great, I just don't know if it's really worth the effort :/ Is there a way to make friends without people thinking I'm even weirder than before? To be honest, I'm not really sure what "friend" means... is it somebody that doesn't hate you or somebody that likes you? Quite a few of you are younger than me (almost 17 >.>)... I've never had friends and I'm not really sure if anybody has been in that situation ._. It seems that by the time somebody is 15, they have had at least one girlfriend... I'm not sure if it's one of those weird tif things or if I'm really just that pathetic D: Not everyone hates you. Gather up all your courage, and start talking to people. There's bound to be someone out there who likes you for who you are. They just don't know it yet. Good luck, this is for your own sake.