"In 1990, only 3 percent of Americans said they had no close friends; in 2021, nearly 12 percent said the same. The United States is in the grips of a loneliness crisis that predates the Covid pandemic."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/01/well/live/how-to-make-friends-adult.html
If this is state for NTs, imagine the situation for autistics who generally have little - no friends through childhood.
However, some of the suggested ways to making friends is hardly the easiest for autistics either - "You really have to try and put yourself out there."So it's a continued conundrum.
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