cimorene

So I'm watching Julie & Julia even though it's not my type of thing because I love Amy Adams and Meryl Streep, and this dialogue happened:

AMY (Julie): What do you think it means if you don't like your friends?
the divine MARY LYN RAJSKUB (her friend Sarah): It's completely normal.

My initial reaction is "What? No." To me, if you don't like them, they aren't your friends! But then, I'm an introvert, and I also am a bit of a misanthrope. (Also I do remember being in high school and there were girls in my clique that I hung out with, and whose lives I was obliged to keep up with and show interest in, whom I didn't really like. But that's, you know, HIGH SCHOOL.)

But I was talking to my little sister yesterday and she is NOT a total misanthrope who never made a friend IRL who didn't do all the work for her (which I am), although she's a bit shy. And she said after a year in college she's made four friends but she isn't really sure she likes any of them.

So... maybe that IS true. What do you say?

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It's normal to not like your friends, sure.

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No. If you don't like them they aren't your friends.
37 (61.7%)

For SOME of your friends, but not your important ones.
12 (20.0%)

It was in high school but it isn't in the real world.
6 (10.0%)

No, we call that 'pretending to be friends'!
30 (50.0%)

Sure. Of course it is. Totally normal.
3 (5.0%)

You mean there are people who like all of their friends?!
4 (6.7%)

Yes it is, but only in meatspace. Thank Bob for the Internet.
4 (6.7%)

Completely normal IRL and on the Internet. That's what talking behind their back is for.
1 (1.7%)