[TheSeamster]

So, I'd assume some of you have that group of friends. And you're all similar in some way or another. And your intimate friends who may even be more similar.

For me, my group of friends are all oddly similar, but different. My closest friend, who is like family (but better) to me, recently came out to me that they desired to become a boy. He wanted to be addressed as Ethan and for us to use masculine pronouns.

And I realized just how similar our whole group was. None of us fit into any clique but our own. We're the group of gender non-conforming, sexuality is pretty fluid, open-minded goofballs.

It's that real intimate friendship where we tell each other everything and open up to each other and can be vulnrable with each other. Does anyone else have that? That deep platonic intimacy?

What is similar about you and your closest friends? What's different? Is there a central theme to you all? Have they changed you? Have you changed them?

[Grey Matter]

Three of my best friends are also non-binary, and the fourth is trans. We all came out one after another, as we felt safer sharing such information. We're all a bunch of science/writing/tv addicted geeks, and it's rather reassuring.

[zobothehobo]

all of my close friends are cis... but they're also all the weird people oddballs.. the way my best friend rachel has described us is "the outcasts of the outcasts." and yep, that's pretty much us.

but i have four different close/best friends. and there's a theme to each friendship.
Alisha and I share sociology and social justice.
Rachel and I share ridiculous humor and apathy
Laura and I share dumb humor and enthusiasm
Kensie and I share pop culture and gossip

I don't know if i would say the whole group has anything in common other than we're all weirdos... but they each share something vital to who I am.

I never had that kind of friendship. I really doubt it existed when I was young. It sounds wonderful... congratulations!

[Rand.]

I only have one friend and we are nothing alike. And we live on different continents. And another guy I sorta hang with on Skype. I guess we're friends but not in the usual sense. We're a lot more alike in personality. But both of them are completely cis.

[Voss]

I actually can't say, other than our general attitudes towards life. I made friends by pulling together in middle school when everyone was a troubled teen, by being the only two odd ducks in a community, or by sharing a sense of humor.