Damn this hurts. But if you’re already going through this, you might as well start putting yourself out by saying hello to whomever you can.
All this hard work to avoid the hard work of making friends.
It takes so much effort from anon to imitate that they could easily find friends, woman, man, whatever. Nevertheless, it’s touching how he answers their dad’s care about them with that. They’re not lost, they’re just lacking directions.
Hot take, Dad should ask if his kid is even interested in going out and if they are, actually facilitate by helping them find activities they’d be interested in instead of just fucking crying on the couch over whatever imaginary life he imagined for his kid
A good dad and a good son doing their best to make each other as happy as they each deserve. Need more of this around here.
Whoever you are and however weird you are, there is already a weirder regular at your local card/tabletop gaming store. Just don’t show up smelly and you’ll make friends easy.
This.
Just make sure you’re smelly, polite, and not egocentric, you’ll make friends everywhere
I remember my parents crying because I couldn’t socialize growing up. I was always actively suicidal and couldn’t connect with kids my age. I probably would’ve ended up like anon if I didn’t get forced into doing activities.