<human>: I was raised and educated in a somewhat unusual setting, and for various reasons, I was basically exclusively around women and girls growing up (stay at home mother and aunt. My father worked a lot.). I had two sisters around my age (two years older, one year younger) and a bunch of female cousins that i was raised with. None of us were raised in a particularly strongly gendered way, and I certainly wasn't raised as a girl or anything dramatic, but I obviously sort of just went with the flow growing up. I think I first started interacting with other boys my age on a regular basis at like age 16 when a new neighbor started hanging out with us a lot more.

I ended up as a pretty average, hetero dude with some stereotypically female interests that tends to click better with women. This is absolutely nothing against men, I have and have had male friends, but there is still a difference in most men and women interact, interests, etc and I'm just much more comfortable with women. 

I'm pretty happy with who I am, and I have and have had both men and women as friends, but always feel a little bit like an outsider and it feels like it has kept me from finding really close friends. My best friends have always been women, but there is always a little bit of a barrier, because at the end of the day, I am obviously not 'one of the girls' and the possibility of sexual attraction tends to mess things up (your boyfriend perceived me helping you do your nails as hitting on you, when we actually just share an interest in nail art, etc). On the other hand with most men, we can be good buds, but at the end of the day I don't really feel like I'm being myself.

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<bot>: Raised entirely around women, now feel like there is a barrier to making close friends with either men or women. How do I make friends as a cis, hetero but effeminate dude.