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This isn't really a surprise to me, but I'm finding I'm increasingly lonely now that restrictions on socializing are all gone. Paying $200 a year (meetup fees) to be rejected and ignored when begging people to hang out with me hurts more than just keeping to myself willingly. That's probably why...

That was my least favorite precaution, to the extent that I stopped shopping at stores that had arrows. Because half the people walked the wrong direction, and all those people defying the arrows made me a lot more frustrated and angry than where there weren't arrows. I guess you live in a...

Living alone with no office and just one semi-local friend, I haven't had any pressure to socialize, outside of small family events on holidays. So I've been enjoying doing it at my own pace and choice. So far that's been meetup groups, and planning to go to a baseball game soon. What I do miss...

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The first social anxiety group meet flopped a bit. There were 9 of us going... then one changed to a no, one was way late, and 5 were unexplained no shows. I loathe people who won't even change their RSVP last second or after the start time. We were basically sitting around for a half hour...

I've changed so much since I was 34, just from experiences and knowing more people. And learned basically all my social skills since turning 30. Couldn't even make eye contact back then. Personally I find it easier to change now than earlier in life, because into the mid 20s you're stuck on an...

I was confused by the line (whether I needed to stand in it since I'd already checked in online), held my arm totally wrong and had to have it moved for me and placed in my lap, and utterly failed at rolling up my sleeve. I've been training and hopefully I can ace those for the second shot.

Restarted my two meetup groups. Turns out having two or three groups costs the same as one, so I did both at once. The hiking group is drawing lots of interest, got a hike scheduled for Friday. One anti-masker so far. Lots of people asking questions. Appears it's going to be socially challenging...

A few months ago, a friend (of many years who I only email on rare occasions, so it's a little bit of an odd friendship) invited me to come visit and stay in her spare room in Colorado post-pandemic. It gave me something fun, original and challenging to think about -- as someone who has never...

I usually blog on SAS, but since they've obliterated their blogs I think I'll try here. I guess if this is supposed to be my personal story, I should start from the beginning. That'd be sometime in late 1979 when I was a zygote and blissfully unaware of socializing. In the middle of the next...

Eventually you have to face whatever set of fears you're going to need to overcome to be happy -- and that set will vary from person to person. Taking time off doesn't necessarily hurt either, though. I just went a year with almost zero socializing thanks to living/working alone during the...

Feeling sore. Partly from vaccination, partly from softball. Both are a good sore though, I suppose.

Retail sounds insanely stressful in normal times, and even worse during a pandemic. I hope you can figure something out or make the leap to something new.

Welcome. My experience is the exact opposite of yours. Childhood was miserable because I was stuck in a system and constantly around people at school and had little control over my life. Now is much better because I don't have a traditional job, can choose when I'm around people, and can make...

Why $12000? :unsure: Did you mean to write $1200, or are used cars 10x more expensive in your country?

Simply travel at the speed of light for 72 hours, so you experience no subjective time passage.

My life isn't bad, just empty. (Basically I can't handle the complexity of lives so I opted out of having one.) But I guarantee your life will be a lot worse than it is now once I've tried to manage it for a week.

I think I would, I've gotten better at approaching people in those situations in recent years. Approaching someone to try to be friendly with them is a whole different game though.

The talk of Google reminds me of perhaps my most ridiculous failing to ask for help situation. My car broke down in a left turn lane a hundred miles from home, near the edge of Carson City but at least a quarter mile from the nearest building. It was 2007 and I didn't have a cell phone yet. I...