I’m 22M, and I am currently an exchange student in Sapporo. I think I’m getting close to being depressed, honestly.
I am autistic, and I have found it hard to make new friends ever since I came here in October, but the spring holiday just started, and it has made me realise that I have made no friends in Sapporo over the past semester whatsoever. My classes were only small, and I ended up in a different dorm to everyone else in my class, so I haven’t been able to hangout and bond with my classmates. Note: I am not at Hokkaido University. I’ve made acquaintances, but nobody I can just message, and just say: “hey, do you want to grab a coffee?”
I’m studying Japanese at university, but my Japanese language level is too low for the lowest level class my university offers, so I’m just struggling immensely in classes, and then outside of classes I feel like I have no support.
Together, the loneliness, and the lack of support is making me feel really down, and over the past couple of weeks I’ve just been moping about, and mostly confined to my bed.
I don’t know what to do, because the last time I raised concerns to someone at my university, they person I was speaking with didn’t really know what to say besides: “does your home university know you’re struggling?”
I’m not big into going to bars, or anything, but I don’t really know how to go about finding friends here. I just feel so isolated at the moment, when I mentioned it to my family, they said the weather could potentially be making me feel bad in general, but besides that they didn’t have much to say.
If anyone has any advice, I’ll take it, and I’m sorry for the stupid post.
by Distinct_Radio_3763