My name is Ed. I'm 37 next week and looking for new friends. Most of my socialising is done online via instant messaging on Messenger and WhatsApp. I enjoy occasional phone calls with people too.

I have an alternative look, with piercings, tattoos and dreadlocks. Truth be told, I don't really enjoy a lot of things that alternatives types seem to like doing. People often assume I'd be into X, Y and Z when nothing could be further from the truth. I've been told by people that I'm a bit of an enigma. Another recurring description over the years has been people saying I'm one of the nicest people they've ever met.

It's not easy though. I'm quite introvert, and my social battery doesn't hold much charge. Around a select few, my playful and hyperactive side comes out. I'm on the spectrum, and spent several decades living with anxiety & depression. It's the flipside to my creative aspects of my personality. Best way to describe it would be emotionally hypersensitive. Which adds a depth and exhaustive quality to life.

I'm Converting a van to live in faraway. It's a Luton box van that I got resprayed in purple. Currently having the last of the carpentry work done, then it's saving up for all the electrics.

I am an introverted & perceptive old soul. Modern values are quite confusing to me, and it often feels like we're living in the last days of Rome.

I'm a quirky, playful & resilient altruist. At 6'4" and with an extremely polite, shy and helpful nature - friends have called me the Big Friendly Giant.

Fond of 1-to-1 conversations, nature, animals, fire spinning, drawing, solitude, writing, comedy, PC, reading & collecting underground music.

I dislike group socialising, pop culture, small-talk, crowds, drunks, nightlife, loud people, violence, festivals, anime, cosplay & musicals.

Ed