You’re confused, out the loop, unconsidered, unheard, misunderstood, and ignored or tolerated— often and they respond is to validate themselves . Those are not your people. Because real friends will take their time to make sure you are considered, heard, seen, understood, informed, clear, just showing up for you and your needs as far as support goes.

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If they wanna hang out with you

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If they’ll stop and consider your needs. Granted, some people are better at this in general regardless of friendship level, but if, say, I said I needed to go to the bathroom while we’re on the highway, someone who cares might remind the driver next time we see a rest stop. Weird example, sorry, but little shit like that. Making sure people have food they like or take their meds or sit down if they need to

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If they put in effort to do stuff with you, plan, reach out, etc

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