Making friends when you’re a kid is as easy as walking up to someone on the playground, asking them how old they are and if they want to play, and then engaging in a rousing pretend game with rules made up on the spot. As an adult, it’s exponentially harder and more awkward. And one mom and comedian, Alyce Chan, posted a video on TikTok to show how much more strange it would be if adults tried to make friends with other adults the same way that kids do.
In some ways, she might be onto something. Being brutally honest with questions and admissions right off the start might be refreshing for some grownups who need some new friends in adulthood. In other ways, asking someone about how much money they make and to watch you do a sick flip off the monkey bars might be cause for concern.
A mom posted a video where she shows how adults would look making friends like kids do on the playground.
In Alyce’s video, she plays the role of an over-sharing adult who talks to another adult on the playground in an attempt to become friends with them. She asks, “How much do you get paid?” and, “Do you want to see my C-Section scar?” She also invites the new friend to her birthday party, which is a week away, and it is absolutely something you might witness your child doing on the playground with a new friend.
She goes on to ask about the new friend’s finances and how they afforded their home. She also orders them to “watch this” as she stands on a swing. Again, it’s the perfect mix of kid activities and adult conversation topics. That is, if adults actually spoke as honestly as kids do when they meet new people and try to make new friendships.
Some adults actually love the idea of being out of pocket and honest to make friends.
Surprisingly, despite the fear of acting this way themselves, some users commented to say that Alyce might not be totally off-base with this way of making friends. Of course, in Alyce’s case, it’s all about making jokes and showing a wild scenario for adults to engage in. But some adults might respond well to this mode of building new friendships.
“This is cute. Maybe we should still be like this lol,” one user commented.
“Honestly, why aren’t we making friends like children?” Another person questioned.
A user also suggested, “Maybe we can all just start doing this and we’ll find each other eventually.”
Someone else claimed that this method allegedly works.
“This really works!!” They wrote. “I was waiting in line at the bank when I told a pretty lady that I went two years without a period and then it came back. We’re meeting for coffee this Friday before work!”
“If ADHD ppl had their own playground,” someone added in the comments, and other users replied to them to agree.
Other adults shared their own ways to make friends in this style.
Some adult TikTok users added their own questions or bits of information that might help them make friends with adults in the wild. Some shared photos of sourdough bread or artwork and wrote things like, “Look what I made!” Others commented statements that work in line with Alyce’s jokes about making friends like kids do.
One wrote, “My husband said I could come over but you can’t let me drink too much.”
Someone also shared, “Do you wanna see my plants?”
Some of these might actually work, to be honest.
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