I am 45 – but I have Depression plus Autism (Aspergers). So I depend on my parents. I am a mostly unpaid intern but I get $300/month allowance.
Oops. That is a lot. Still, I bet you can work up to waking a mile.
There is a company out there called Live Person. It looks like they have changed their name to PrestoExperts.
http://www.prestoexperts.com/#
I’ve never talked to one of their therapists but I have gotten medical advice, legal advice, and veterinary advice. It looks like they have set prices now but when I used them you said how much you were willing to pay and somebody would get back to you.
I never talked to somebody on the phone but it looks like that is an option.
It will cost you but the prices look like about the same or better than what you would pay to see them in person.
I don’t know if insurance would cover an online or telephone therapist though.
Thanks! Will check out Presto Experts. How much do they charge?
Post an ad in your local Craigslist under the section Personals-Strictly Platonic. I checked a random Craigslist and the first ad under w4m (women for men) was as follows:
Hmm. That had a decidedly non-platonic feel to it.
I’ve been fatter and less fat in my life and there was a time or two in the depths of my fatness years ago that I was pretty near your weight. 340 lbs is a pain in the ass to lug around but unless you are a 5 foot tall old lady it’s hardly a crippling weight that would prevent you from walking a mile at a slow pace, catching a cab or getting around town if you needed to. You’re not house bound. You are choosing not to go out.
Here are some sites where you can chat with people. It’s not on the phone, but it is one-on-one.
I haven’t tried either of these, but I have no reason to believe they’re not legitimate.
They offer no phone therapy. Just chat. No need.
This is along the lines of what I was thinking of too. But I wonder if a nursing home might be amenable to the OP being able to phone elders who like to talk on the phone but don’t get many calls. That might make a nice first step, and it can’t hurt to ask.
I’m sure there are internet support groups for heavily overweight people. Find them and join. I think you will find people there who would like to chat with you. For example:
Likewise there are going to forums devoted to any hobbies you have, for example knitting.
So first participate in general chat, then the private chat and then telephone chat.
In your local area there are going to be organizations that deal with the elderly and shut-ins, as well as churches. Contact them–they may know some lonely people you could chat with.
From what I can see anywhere from 85 cents to a few dollars a minute. I paid anywhere from $25-$40 for emails
There are message boards by and for Aspies. One venerable one is Aspie Hangout.
send my a PM with your phone number and we can chat 
I see you are offline now
I will be around, I check this web page frequently
I have had a couple of friends who are Aspies
I’d be glad to talk to you
I am very easy to talk to :):)
I have bipolar disorder, so I can understand what it is like to be depressed
Yep, I saw. That changes nothing about my answer. Do it often enough and you’ll get used to it. If you use it as an excuse why you can’t leave the house, then we loop back to what I said previously about being willing to change the circumstances which you claim are not giving you what you want.
If you need a confidence boost, I have a friend who is about your size who walks more than I do. (Neither of us have cars, and often walking is faster than waiting for a bus.) She’s also connected with everybody – not even kidding, practically every time I meet someone knew, I discover they already know my friend. She takes classes, which is part of it, the rest I’m convinced comes from her magic powers or something.
Install PalTalk on your computer and find a group that meets your interests or hang out in a general group. Sooner or later you will make a friend and someone will want to talk to you.
That is a really good article.
CCitizen, do you like video games? Maybe try an online game where you interact with other people. If you play a game where you group up with other people and you get into a nice group ask to group with them again, and again and again and over a bit of time if you get friendly with them maybe you can become phone friends with them or even hang out if some are nearby.
I play World of Warcraft from time to time and was once in a guild that had people in my area and we would get together from time to time to hang-up. Sometimes people from nearby cities came over.
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So you’re asking about how to make telephone friends on a message board on which various people have made friends (both virtual and real life). Has it occurred to you that you might fulfill your need for friends here on the SDMB?
I get the impression that you mainly participate only in threads that you’ve started and those have mostly been about how fucked up your life is. So I’d recommend trying to engage others here; respond to threads started by others,and talk about stuff other than yourself and your problems.