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I grew up in an area that most people would look upon as a ghetto. I didn't perceive it that way when I was growing up there, but that's how middle class people perceive it. It has produced some villains and some outstanding people. George Best, the finest British footballer that ever lived grew...

Yes, very much so. I know what it feels like to be used, taken for granted and played for a fool. My good nature has made me vulnerable to deception, and when you realise that the person you gave the benefit of the doubt was just using you, well, that can hurt. Seems like you've experienced the...

Your opinions are just as valid as anyone elses, and I take the point about many people complaining about how the world treats them, and not sparing a thought about how they treat the world. I'm a generally good humoured, good natured person. I'm also genuine and naturally trusting, but...

I could laboriously go through a point by point analysis, agreeing with all of what you've said, but yeah, people are becoming meaner, more aggressive and cruel, and they generally try to get away with whatever they can. The highways have always been there, and anonymity can provide...

It does, and you make a valid point: there is an inherent hypocrisy in responding to people's meanness with meanness, then complaining about people being mean. It's a quandary and a struggle. Should we respond to rudeness with rudeness, or should we baton down the hatches and not allow...

The world was a kinder, more benevolent place when I was younger, or at least that is how I perceived it. As I reached my thirties I began to detect an unprecedented level of phoniness in people, it seemed as if everyone around me was a total fake and an actor. Then I began to detect not just...

Too late for me I'm afraid. I've been on my own for 16 years. I missed the relationship/marriage/have children boat, and instead row about this huge ocean alone in a rowing boat of my own construction. The solitude has been killing me slowly for many years. I go through periods of falling out of...

Thanks Mike. Have a great bike ride.

Great advice, ShybutHi". In fact that's the sort of advice I would have given if someone else as socially inhibited as me had created this thread. In social situations I have a propensity to freeze, in fact my aversion to social situations and people in general has caused this 15 year rut. Not...

...I am about to meet a group of people who are members of a Hill-walking club in a bid to break out of solitary confinement and enjoy the great outdoors with other people. I'm shitting myself, as I don't know any of these people, and after 15 years of being a chronic loner and living in...

Yes.

I understand you. In fact I could have written what you have written myself, as my life has been very similar. I can empathise 100%. I've always felt myself to an outsider, misfit, loner and recluse. This feeling was recently compounded when I sat on the shore front and noticed that all of the...

God I hope not. The sales rep I was talking to was a guy, and I'm heterosexual.

Today I gave loneliness a slap on the head, and went out and chatted to a sales representative in Currys electrical store. I learned a lot about the new generation of HD LED digital TV's with internet access. Technology is truly astounding.

Tell me about it. Haven't heard of meetup.com. Thanks for mentioning it.

It's both. Autism can hamper effective social interaction and communication. People with Aspergers syndrome are particularity affected, and in that sense it is a disorder. On the flip side most autistic people are gifted in many ways that people without the disorder aren't. Einstein himself was...

I've always felt like an outsider and a misfit, I used to take pride in it when I was younger, but as I've got older sometimes I wish I could just fit in somewhere, but regrettably the feelings of being different and disconnected from others has just intensified. This has led to a lot of...

UPDATE: Loneliness can suck my ass.

She needs to send photos of her ****s. Not that size is important, it's more shape really. :P

Thanks for the encouraging words, TheSolitaryMan. I've battled with my weight for quite a while and have been on many diets over the years and have lost weight, but when I return to normal eating the weight just slowly piles back on again. I am not an athletic person, but I do push myself to...