<p>go to church,
at our youth group this girl who none of us knew before started crying,
and we stopped the service,
and like three people rushed to comfort her</p>
<p>also, i’m surprised at how few people are hooked on drugs</p>
<p>I think it’s not that pmvd has problems going up to people and making friends, I think it’s more of people find him so annoying that they want to avoid him at all costs…</p>
<p>That’s true, and then people blame me for not having friends.</p>
<p>Step-by-step analysis of what happens:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>I try to make friends.</p></li>
<li><p>I get rejected.</p></li>
<li><p>I don’t like to get rejected.</p></li>
<li><p>I don’t bother trying to make friends.</p></li>
<li><p>People blame me for not having friends.</p></li>
<li><p>I give people the benefit of the doubt, feel guilty.</p></li>
<li><p>I go back to step 1.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>By the way, forget churchies. I don’t like to hang out with people who hang out with me out of pity.</p>
<p>Perhaps you get rejected (step 2) because you come across as trying too hard or others sense that you’re desperate to make friends. There’s a guy on my floor who doesn’t have any close friends because he tries so hard to fit in and be “one of the guys” that he ends up annoying the crap out of us and consequently, no one wants to be around him for more than 5 minutes. </p>
<p>Just be yourself, do your thing, and let things happen naturally – and stop obsessing over it. Join clubs/groups that interest you, you’re more likely to find others who share your interests and are better suited to you as a potential friend.</p>
<p>are u cAnIHAZsumPIE? it would seriously not surprise me. in fact, u should search for him on here, become bffs, & leave this forum alone. this is getting ridiculous.</p>
<p>Well then maybe you should stop posting on this forum because we don’t like you very much here either, you’re too stupid and you lower our social value, plus you’re boring.</p>
<p>these responses are actual probably a good representation of what you’ll run into in real life: a good portion of ******bags, a moderate portion who don’t care either way, and a portion who genuinely would like to be friends with you. Obviously the key is to find people of the third group, but you’re not going to be able to do that if you think everyone who is being nice to you is “doing it out of pity”. Maybe they are just nice people who want to give you a chance, or maybe that can empathize with what you’re going through. It seems like you’re judging them that way just out of fear of rejection. </p>
<p>You’re wrong about thinking I wouldn’t like you in real life though; you actually remind a ton of a pretty anti-social friend of mine back here in college. O, and just some advice on talking to people: you really don’t need to have a super interesting life. Just follow the news, watch some tv, do some activities. Those things are easy enough to talk about.</p>
<p>"I am boring and/or not interested in things people my age normally care about: getting drunk, partying, getting laid, etc… "</p>
<p>Only the nerdy people care about those things because they are more of a challenge for them. Everyone else is just like “they’ll happen when they happen. who cares?” That’s how it is at mine & friends’ colleges. Not being into those things doesn’t make you boring, most teens and most adults don’t do any of those.</p>
<p>The fact that the staff is still making you do this is hilarious. CC has enough hot topics already. Truthful topics deserve more attention than concocted tripe like this.</p>
<p>That’s another common misconception: that I don’t want to be helped. I want to be helped, but people fail to understand, despite all my explanations, that I am not like most people out there. That doesn’t mean that I think their advice is worthless, it’s just that it often misses the point.</p>