3. How do you end a friendship as an adult?

How do you end a friendship as an adult?

I think it depends on how close you are? Ghosting might work for a casual friendship, but I always prefer to be honest with someone I've previously been close friends with for a long time. I always treat my friends the same way I do my romantic interests. I might fade out with someone I went on one date with, but not someone I've been official with for 5+ years. I treat friends with the same respect.

Being honest, the slow fade bothers me a lot from friends since I am also on the ASD spectrum. I do not understand hidden cues like that and would be more likely to keep responding to them after a set time until it is said to me flat out. Especially since it's pretty normal for me and my friends to not respond for a few days, change plans frequently, etc. So I wouldn't really 'get' what you were trying to do. I can't know that I did something wrong if I'm never told, so how can I improve if I don't know that I was hurting someone? Even if the friendship is dead regardless, I'll just keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again with new friends and will never know at all because nobody told me what was wrong.

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