As a kid, I was held back in kindergarten for being socially different. In elementary school, everybody called me shy and I was quiet. I played alone and I felt like I did not know how to talk to people or what to talk to them about. It felt like everyone else knew magical social rules that I did not understand. My mom took me to a therapist for social anxiety. I am a highly introverted person and can entertain myself with the Sims video games, books and the Internet. I spent years entertaining myself this way and now I am out of high school and I feel lonely. I have no friends and nothing good going for me in my life. Looking back, I feel like I could have been more outgoing if I was not so content with being alone and cared so much what people thought of me. I feel like I missed out and I have so much regret. Can anyone else relate? I have always felt like being social was hard and it did not make sense to me how other people communicated.
