Can’t make any social connections with anyone Just as a…
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Can’t make any social connections with anyone
Just as a background I used to have debilitating social anxiety for a good 10 years since getting into middle school, and now I’m working and really trying to connect with anyone because I don’t want to stay lonely.
I still have some level of social anxiety, that never goes away but I can speak to people just fine now. The only problem is, I don’t have the social skills to form any meaningful connections with people, especially those who don’t share common interests with me. I am kind of a unique person when it comes to interests, so finding people who share common interests I would say is near to impossible from personal experience. Unfortunately, I can’t make up for that gap in interests by being funny or witty, I don’t even have mutuals with other people or interesting stories to tell as my life has been spent mostly alone due to the social anxiety and isolation for many years. And to be honest, I was still capable of socializing with people in university but I was so uninteresting that I still failed to make any friends there even though it’s considered to be the ideal environment for that.
Long story short, I’m stumped. I can’t find a genuine way to connect with people and have frankly given up. I’m 24 years old so I don’t really know if there is much room for growth in this aspect. I just need to know, has anyone else been in this situation in their 20’s, is it even salvageable?
#relationships
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Just as a background I used to have debilitating social anxiety for a good 10 years since getting into middle school, and now I’m working and really trying to connect with anyone because I don’t want to stay lonely.
I still have some level of social anxiety, that never goes away but I can speak to people just fine now. The only problem is, I don’t have the social skills to form any meaningful connections with people, especially those who don’t share common interests with me. I am kind of a unique person when it comes to interests, so finding people who share common interests I would say is near to impossible from personal experience. Unfortunately, I can’t make up for that gap in interests by being funny or witty, I don’t even have mutuals with other people or interesting stories to tell as my life has been spent mostly alone due to the social anxiety and isolation for many years. And to be honest, I was still capable of socializing with people in university but I was so uninteresting that I still failed to make any friends there even though it’s considered to be the ideal environment for that.
Long story short, I’m stumped. I can’t find a genuine way to connect with people and have frankly given up. I’m 24 years old so I don’t really know if there is much room for growth in this aspect. I just need to know, has anyone else been in this situation in their 20’s, is it even salvageable?
#relationships
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