I’ll share it with my friend
Dude this makes me sad. Many times I ended up doing the same thing because I got busy. Then my best friend died and I never got to say goodbye. Sucks.
Yeah, but how happy would you be to suddenly receive a:
“Hi, apologies for the delayed reply, it turns out I’m really bad at replying to messages. Anyway, I would absolutely love to meet up whenever suits you best - although I do understand you sent that message in 2006, and circumstances have likely changed…”
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I hate that I do this, but when I do finally respond to an email or letter and it’s been too long, I sign off with “Yours eventually”
I hate how relatable this comic is
Yeah same. I don’t have many friends and those I do I neglect. I don’t deserve them.
Just moved house, working 2 jobs, finding it hard to fit everything in
Your friends know you have an executive function disorder. They will still be happier to get a response eventually. There might be some gentle ribbing, but it’ll be intended to be taken in stride.
I didn’t know I was on the spectrum until I got diagnosed earlier this year; I’d made this comic well before then (/I’m just sharing my old comics in this community) but in hindsight there’s a few of them that make more sense to me now that I know.
Hehe, yeah. Well, it’s not like there is a small amount of us. And that’s without including all the people that just don’t know yet. So, it still makes for popular comic material.
Y’all, I still haven’t responded to a wedding invitation from more than a year ago. I said “no” after careful thought about travel expenses, but I wanted so much to follow up with a thoughtful response and just. Didn’t. Even though I think about it at least monthly. Last thought about it was, “well, maybe the 2nd year anniversary of the invitation is the right time to respond.” Fucking awful.
Oh, this is OC?
aye. i don’t have a website, really. just a tumblr from when i was making comics for fun.
For me is more like “when i have the time i will reply”
Two seconds later: “i believe i have already replied to it so it’s fine”
Next day looking at my phone:
I’ve been thinking every so often that I need to reply to my friend’s text, because it’s been a while since he messaged me. Thinking it’d only been a few weeks, maybe a month tops.
He texted me last June.
…I am an irredeemable monster
I just messaged someone after not getting back after 4 years :) . Online friend so not completely crazy to have not communicated.
I don’t think day 2 actually requires an apology, it’s pretty clear that yesterday was probably busy. The whole advantage of SMS is the messages can be chronologically separated, maybe I like to go through them in the mornings or something.
Day 3, sure I can see wanting to apologize there.
Oh thank you so much! That’s exactly what’s happening. I will save it for the next time I take forever to answer.
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