A Very Fun (see: Not Fun) thing about whatever is going on with my brain (ADHD? Autism? Both? Other?) is that I don't experience friendship decay.
We haven't spoken in 10 years? In my mind, we're still as close as we always were.
In neurotypical minds, this is apparently not the case.
And it sucks that people I think and speak of fondly, and send memes to because they remind me of them, and use in anecdotes do not think of me the same way.
And I'll try reaching out only to be met with the bare minimum or even be left on read.
It worked out extremely well for me one time, when I brute forced rekindled a friendship from my teen years and it led to our D&D group forming (and I am eternally grateful to them, because now that group are some of my favourite people in the world).
But it still sucks seeing people I still care about not give a shit about me 👍
