I'm quite intriverted, and honestly I don't think about it much.

even before diagnoses I didn't really have friends. part of that was obviously my family forbidding me to play with other children in the first place, and part of it was that when people did see me they only saw the bad- oh she's too fat to be my friend, she's too ugly to be my friend, I bet she couldn't hold a conversation even if she tried, etc etc etc.

I think nowadays I have so many issues affecting me from day to day, it's hard to really say what affects my chance of making friends more. people are put off by the fact I have bipolar disorder, but they are just as put off by the fact I was abused or I SI, or I have backpain, what ever. I can't blame bipolar for my difficulty in making friends, because the truth is their's a number of factors at work here.