Gonna upset the narrative a bit but I was made for the internet. Internet and social media greatly widened my horizons and enabled me to find more people that I can relate to. I never found many of these people within my social circle when I was younger and so many of them emigrated, left town or died. I've always been the odd one out as an autistic female: simply not wired like most others and unable to socialise easily, my thought processes are much too out-there for most people and it's hard not to be bored. The people that you find online that will become real do just that in time and then well, the phone and whatsapp videocalls are our lifeline