I can’t make friends

I’ve always been shy/ awkward socially.

It’s so hard to make friends once ur outside HS though.

The amount of people I talk to now as greatly decreased. Partly covid , partly cuz I have a bf and not dating around anymore. And cuz I haven’t had a good job in almost 2 years.

I’m at the end of a one year program. Ppl ignore me or are just polite and don’t say much else than is needed. It sucks everyone around me in class having fun and having friends. I just sit alone quietly.

It’s so bad this girl randomly asked me in class what I’d be doing over vacation. I was so shocked and I think she could tell. But I just cried when I got home cuz it’s just so pathetic.

It’s really discouraging. I do try and put myself out there when I get the courage.

No one around me understands. Trying to get advice from someone who has never had the problem is insanely frustrating. They just brush it off. “Just talk. Just say something. Just keep trying. Stop over thinking. It’s easy”

I’m in school and I’ve been in a LOT of internships with it. So I am in lots of social situations. Yet for some reason things aren’t clicking like they use to.