Are you still friends with your childhood best friend?

[Allhallowsday]

Don't speak to any of them. When I left primary school and went to high school all my friends made new friends and ignored me. When I went (briefly) to college, all my high school friends made new friends and ignored me....And so on, and so on...

Uh.  Enough of that.  How do you make it into the top 5 of an internet forum (devoted to "bad" movies, no less)?? 
By being an informed smart-ass, committed clown, and challenging iconoclast... what you've described is not unlike my own experience.  Are you sometimes sharp, or impatient?  I do find that life that lacks want is too often filled with disappointment.   You're surviving well, so note, that though few people understand true commitment, we are here.  Waiting. 
As for you, get a kitty, love it, and work on yourself.  You can only become more awesome. 

[Allhallowsday]

My turn: I have one friend from junior high school that I have hung onto a very long time.

[JaseSF]

I still have my best friend from high school. He's been the only true long lasting friend in my life although I think he's a bit jealous of me lately now that I have a girlfriend and he doesn't...

[indianasmith]

I have one close friend from elementary school that I get together with several times a year; cook out, watch movies, and discuss life, the universe, and everything . . . we agree very little, but love to bat stuff back and forth.

Then there was that annoying girl in my second grade class who used to chase me down  on the playground every day and kick me in the shins . . . I married her!

[Allhallowsday]

I have one close friend from elementary school that I get together with several times a year; cook out, watch movies, and discuss life, the universe, and everything . . . we agree very little, but love to bat stuff back and forth.
Then there was that annoying girl in my second grade class who used to chase me down  on the playground every day and kick me in the shins . . . I married her!

Yes, and shave once in awhile. 

[Allhallowsday]

Last time I spoke to my best childhood friend was 35 years ago, back in 1975.
I lived in Lebanon, NJ and he had 3 other brothers and 2 sisters.  I recently went back to visit his old home last year, and was re-united with his baby sister and one brother, as well as his mother.  His mother, I might add, instantly recognized my named after almost 40 years and ID'ed me as her one son's best friend. 
That blew me away.  His one sister and brother were somewhat skeptic until I refershed their memories with the places we used to play in, the people we hung out with, ect. It was OK then.   
Had I known the family was still there after all these years, I'd have NEVER lost touch with them. Hard to believe we're all in our 40's now. The mother and father just had their 50th anniversary too!
Anyhow, I've been desperately trying to contact my best buddy (have his address+phone) but he refuses to return the call. I spoke to his mother and she says she has no idea what the problem is.  I wish he'd get back to me, he was the best friend I ever had and I miss him a lot. 

35 years?    That's really sad. 

[Mofo Rising]

I don't keep in contact with any of the people I grew up with, other than immediate family.

No particular reason for it. I grew up in Juneau, AK, a town of about 30,000 people. I moved to Arizona when I was 19, but never expected to stay as long as I did. (I'm still in Arizona.)

There are a few people who have contacted me via Facebook. I approve them, but I don't go out seeking the people I knew. I'm at least a decade removed from most of those people. I don't have any ill will or anything, but at this point the people I knew growing up are just not a part of my life. I'm sure if we met up we could have fun, but they would only be acquaintances, not friends.

[Jack]

I moved around a fair bit during my life and lost track of everybody.  Or they moved away, or just got on my nerves eventually.  I don't have that "stay in touch" gene I'm afraid.  That was then, this is now. 

[Newt]

There are a few people who have contacted me via Facebook. I approve them, but I don't go out seeking the people I knew. I'm at least a decade removed from most of those people. I don't have any ill will or anything, but at this point the people I knew growing up are just not a part of my life. I'm sure if we met up we could have fun, but they would only be acquaintances, not friends.

I am in pretty much the same situation.  Maybe a little worse: I cannot say I remember much about having 'friends' in childhood.  There were people I remember playing with.  As for the few I spent time with in high school: even though I retain fondness for them, it was a long time ago and we've been on separate ways for far longer than we knew each other.  You really cannot go home again.     I am sure if we met up we'd have a pleasant time; I am not sure we'd make much effort to re-establish our relationships.

[Trevor]

Then there was that annoying girl in my second grade class who used to chase me down  on the playground every day and kick me in the shins . . . I married her!

I'm seriously glad that you two got married and are not living in shin together. 

[Trevor]

When Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980, a lot of people fled the country and I lost a lot of my childhood friends then but have since found some of them on FaceBook. 

[The Burgomaster]

I haven't seen my childhood best friend in about 35 years . . . probably longer.  The last I heard (which was about 20 years ago) he was a sniper in the U.S. Army.  He got discharged at the end of his enlistment period, didn't like civilian life, and went back into the service.  Don't know where he is now.

[The Gravekeeper]

Nope. Moved around too much as a kid thanks to the military to form really strong bonds with any of my friends; and since most of my friends were military kids, too, and got moved all over the world, well...

[Criswell]

This makes me nervous about being a senior next year. Heck i'm already nervous about losing my friends that are graduating this year. Hopefully i'll be able to keep in touch with my friends.

[Paquita]

I'm still best friends with my childhood best friend!  She lived 2 houses down from me and we started playing together when we were about 4.  She and her family moved to the suburbs when I was 8, but we both for some reason had no other friends, so we stayed in contact and would spend weekends together and go on family vacations with eachother almost every summer.  She just moved back to her old house last year, so we're still whoopin' it up!  And we still don't have many other friends!  I just bought us 2 drinking hats and I can't wait to use em! 

I've got another friend from high school that I'm still BFFs with too.  She's also got the can't make other friends syndrome.  Actually, she met her husband trying to set him up with me, and his best friend married my other best friend, so now I think we're all related.

I had one other friend that I don't talk to anymore.  She was the type that had a mountain of "best friends" and there was a situation at a party that burned me a little so we drifted apart after that and then she moved out of state and told me to e-mail her, which I thought was rude so I never did.