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Background Pony #11A3
“Thanks Twilight. You don’t know how much I have needed to hit you with a stick.”
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@Background Pony #A5F0  
I might be able to shine a little bit of light on this. I thought I made great friends years ago. After learning what really great friends actually are, it turned out I was just really fond of some friendly acquaintances. So, my ideas of what a “friend” vary over the ideas over a course of a lifetime.
 
Also, as some others have said, “considering someone a friend retrospectively” is totally a thing that can happen. You know, once I understood how good, healthy friendships work, it’s easy to look back and see all the signs I missed.
 
I kinda think the same thing happened to Twilight. If anything, she’s kinda acting a little belatedly on those signs and building new friendships anyway. They may have considered her a friend, and now that Twilight can appreciate friendship, she may have felt bad for not reciprocating.
 
Oooh! There’s something else I love about the episode: I loved how Minuette totally recognized that Twilight was just sorta asocial and unappreciative, but Minuette liked Twilight anyway.
 
Twilight Sparkle: Before I left Canterlot, I didn’t really appreciate my friends. And that’s because I didn’t know how important friendship was. But I’ve learned so much since I moved to Ponyville. I learned what it means to be a good friend and that I certainly wasn’t one to the three of you. So for all the pain I caused you, I am truly sorry.
Twinkleshine, Minuette and Lemon Hearts: [giggling]
Minuette: Oh, come on, Twilight! Sure, it might’ve stung a little bit when you ran off to Ponyville without saying goodbye, but it’s not like we weren’t used to that from you!
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Also, since Twilight is the Princess of Friendship, it’s possible her perspective is a little skewed. She’s so used to being an avatar of friendship that she can’t remember when she wasn’t a good friend.
Background Pony #CF79
Twilight was their friend, but they were not her friends. They considered her a gruff, tough to get long with pony who was grudgingly their friend. She likely considered them acquaintances at the most (at the time at least), and only went along with them because they pressured her (and she still brought books to the gatherings, showing she probably mostly just read instead of interacted).
Background Pony #FBEF
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But that she didn’t care IS the sad situation, isn’t it? That’s the picture the first episode painted: a pony who even when others reached out to her refused to give something as ‘pointless’ as friendship the time of day.
 
Now, how she came to be that is something we don’t know. My guess has always been that Twilight was always a bit socially stunted, and the pressure from being Celestia’s student made friends feel even more like a distraction. So she kept to her books.
 
It took being shown the power of friendship in the most extreme way for Twilight to care and realize how important it was. Moondancer being a good example of where she would have ended up otherwise.
Background Pony #BB7C
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Why won’t you be able to take it seriously though? She was a loner who didn’t take the oportunity to spend time with others because she didn’t think it was worth it.
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What weirded me a bit more is that SHE called the trio ‘friends’. She shouldn’t have considered them as such?
 
Maybe they proclaimed they were all friends and she just went along with it, not really knowing or caring what being a friend actually meant. That’s the impression I got from Twilight’s flashbacks.
Background Pony #FBEF
@Lawful Girly
 
I’m not sure I get it. We were always aware Twilight had the oportunity to make friends but didn’t appreciate it before Ponyville. To me this episode didn’t change that, as she still neglected the ponies arround her for her books.
 
What weirded me a bit more is that SHE called the trio ‘friends’. She shouldn’t have considered them as such?
Background Pony #FBEF
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Well, we were told Twilight was a loner before because she didn’t see the point in friendship and was apathetic towards the idea (makes me wonder what led to that) right?
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@Background Pony #A5F0  
It implies that she always had friendship, but was apathetic towards it at the time, and even the friends didn’t mind that.
 
And now it’s going to be impossible to take any Lonely young Sparkle art seriously, if I could even attempt to before.
Background Pony #FBEF
@Lawful Girly
 
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Yep. Only Shining.
 
And yeah it does. The very concept is weird to me. It was always made clear that Twilight had not made friends before the mane 6, and yet this episode would imply she had and was just a bad friend to them?
Background Pony #FBEF
@Lawful Girly
 
Pretty sure there was only Shining there. And even that seems to have been thrown in for the song.
 
The fact that her room was left as a mess indicates she left in a hurry, to me.