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When asking for advice about finding ND friendship groups, many people don’t realise they start with saying they asked their existing friendship group if they’d like to form a new interest-based group.

If this is you, please take a moment to realise how wonderful this sounds to someone like me who has literally never had this in my adult life. I’m not bitter / mad for people who say this - but I do hope you realise your friendship groups sound like literal, real life treasures to me. Most of the time I wonder if ND friendship groups are myths, but when you say this it reminds me they are real and exist… somewhere.

Ultimately, what I’m hearing is that we can do all the strategies possible to try to meet friends and form those groups, but many of you make it sound like you didn’t really have to try. It’s like you naturally found a group, maybe ‘right place, right time’, etc. And that really does make sense.

I’ve been leading a fake NT life, making choices that NTs would make (due to being later identified ND). I now wonder if I give off vibes that are not NT enough and not ND enough to truly mix with anyone. I would much rather be true to myself: fully ND. But unmasking after four decades of heavy masking… so much of it is unconscious. Until then, I just don’t seem to fit anywhere. (I won’t give up - this is simply a statement.)

Feeling a LOT of self blame for being so isolated. Maybe it’s a natural process for later identified ND?

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I think this is one of the reasons why when RPGs are good they are so, so good. And when they go wrong they can go so, so wrong.

When they're good they give us things we're missing, connections we need, support we didn't even know existed.

And when they're bad it feels like the world doubling down on taking things away.

It's why I've spent years and years trying to be a more supportive player/GM and helping others do the same

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