So I’ve been friends with this girl (she’s told me numerous times that we’re close friends) for a few months now, and we like to text each other a lot. I have a severe anxiety problem, and sometimes it causes me to have trust issues, and I’m also high functioning autistic, so those two things combined, make me even more prone to anxiety when talking with someone. And there’s been a few times since we’ve known each other that she hasn’t texted me back much, and I would get kinda worried that I was being ignored, so I would usually reply with a “are you okay”? Or “are you busy”. And usually she would be like “nah ur good”. But last night I got rly anxious cuz she was kinda being slow with her replies, and I was like “are you on the phone rn? Cuz if you are, I can stop talking if you want”. And then she was like “I’m fine”. And then I finally replied with “okay, well I have to go to work. We’ll talk later”. And then she replied with “k”. Which is uncharacteristic for her, because she usually responds with “okay” or “Kk”. And now it’s almost 24 hours since that situation, and she still hasn’t texted me back. Thoughts anyone?

Updated: She was actually rly sad over something that happened to a family member of hers. We’re all good now, and she said she just needed some alone time. When she started talking to me again she explained what happened, and said she was just cutting contact with her friends for a few days to figure her family situation out. But she’s talking now, and we are still close friends 😊. No friendship lost here folks haha.