
You are so young and have all the time in the world. For me, with Level 1 ASD as well, I had to become my own friend first and enjoy hanging out with myself. I struggled a ton to make friends bc girls are so vicious and will be your friend just to pick you to be their drama llama they’ll bully later on. I had to learn to stop masking to become likable by certain groups or people, I just had to like myself… eventually I found my people (online via special interests) all across the country!
it’s so autistic of me but it’s a short song from Steven Universe that kind of helped me understand it, and myself, better. (The whole show helped me understand how to be human and have human emotions and relationships tbh) “I don’t need you to respect me, I respect me. I don’t need you to love me, I love me… but I want you to know you could know me if you change your mind.”