I'm 31 and despite being well-spoken and having good social skills, I've been an outcast my entire life. I got bullied and beaten up a lot in school, and got punished for fighting back. By high school, I was fed up with it and stopped talking altogether. The few friends I did have are long gone.

I can't even go to a fucking bar because no one will socialize with me there either. Anyone I speak to or approach turns me away.

I gave up on the internet because I wasn't finding friends there, and went back to exclusively searching in real life, but still nothing. Where are all the people who are actually open to meeting new people and making new friends?

Back when I had friends, our hangouts mostly consisted of playing card games or video games together.

>>33368410 (OP)
In your situation you need to basically find people who are even bigger losers you are and befriend them. Sadly new adult friendships revolve around what each person brings into the friendship. If you don't bring much you need to find someone who will find your presence valuable (aka an even bigger loser who will see hanging out with you as raising their social status).
I don't make the rules sorry.

>>33368410 (OP)
You need to find hobbies, shit you can genuinely be passionate about that is a bit more involving than playing games.

>>33368447
Hanging out with losers just made the problem worse.

>>33368545
No, I'm not doing shit alone anymore

>>33368551
>implying an outcast with 0 friends isn't a loser
kek'd

>>33368551
>No, I'm not doing shit alone anymore
No shit, I'm talking about finding something that involves interacting with people. A sport or art form, for example. Again, it would have to be something that you would enjoy.

>>33368627
I already do shit that involves interacting with people. But it never leads to anything deep or meaningful

>>33368410 (OP)
>got punished for fighting back
No, you didn't. You have constructed a victimization fable in your head.

>>33368410 (OP)
Can you give us an example of your good social skills? It's pretty unusual for someone as socially adept as you are to completely fail at every social situation he's in.

>>33368572
You might be surprised but you can indeed become an outcast among outcasts lol

>>33370909
No, I literally was punished for fighting back.

>>33368410 (OP)
you pay people to hang out with you at first
for example a photographer (follow you around and take cool pics of you )
or make a meetup event (bar hopping)
or join a meetup event
or join a class

money talks, you pay your way in and that way people have to socialize with you

>>33370909
nta but every time I fought back I got hauled to the head teacher's office and threateatened with being sent to a boarding school for criminal youth
meanwhile no one did nothing when I was being beaten up by multiple kids during recess, chestnuts being thrown at me all PE class, my bag thrown on the school roof etc.

You are supposed to make lifelong friends with your extended relatives and neighbors. After that, your best bet is through work, since unrelated adults interact mostly through repeated utility.

>>33368410 (OP)
>31 year old man claims to be well-spoken and having good social skills
>hasn't spoken to anyone since he was teased in 6th grade

>mfw

>>33371327
>Can you give us an example of your good social skills?
You know he can't.

>>33374679
>nta but every time I fought back
>>33368410 (OP)
>got punished for fighting back
I feel like this is one of those scenarios where guy was being teased and decided that the appropriate response was to lunge at the kids with scissors in his hands and REEEEE in front of the teacher.

>>33368410 (OP)
As an average male nobody will want to socialize with you since you have no value and have nothing interesting to provide. Ok other normies will want to socialize with you about pointless shit nobody cares about, but if they get a whiff that you are "redpilled" or worse "blackpilled" they will immediately discard you. The truth poses a fundamental threat to their matrix so better learn to only say things they want to hear.
You also need to look the part, they want somebody who looks harmless and docile like them. If you have an intimidating look and attitude they will avoid you. Basically anything that is outside of their mainstream programming is a no-go.

I don't know why you would want to befriend the goyim cattle in 2025 though.

>>33374827
>hasn't spoken to anyone since he was teased in 6th grade

Where did I say that? I speak to people, the issue that nobody except coworkers will let me speak to them. I get ignored or turned away by everyone else.

>>33374856
No, it was simply responding to physical abuse in kind. They hit me, I hit back.

>>33368410 (OP)
get some skilled hobby like art, music, pottery or something and go to classes/stuff for that

>>33374827
>You know he can't.
I still wanted to see him try

>>33368410 (OP)
>well-spoken and having good social skills
yeah definitely NOT the case

>>33368410 (OP)
ive only been out to bars sometimes but every time ive talked to like 3 complete strangers just by sitting at the bar area lol

>>33374856
>>33370909
nah it's just that teachers dont like the weird/autistic/social rejects kids either, SCPECIALLY SINCE MOST TEACHERS ARE WOMEN, and are ok with them getting beaten up, but not when they fight back and hurt their precious normies

>>33375484
>Where did I say that? I speak to people, the issue that nobody except coworkers will let me speak to them. I get ignored or turned away by everyone else.
that's sme impressive social skills there. i just dont get it

>>33374748
I don't have the option of neighbors or coworkers, they're all married and decades older than me. Nobody my age lives near me or works the same shift.

>>33375562
I'm looking for friends, not random people to talk to.

Real friends, like the kind I wanted growing up, but never had, so I was forced into hanging out with the few kids who happened to live in the same neighborhood.

>>33375612
If you want friends, a little self-awareness could go a long way. It seems you struggle with that.

>>33375617
I already have self-awareness. I went to counseling when I was in school and I went to therapy as an adult. Neither found anything wrong with me.

you jump into the conversation and start talking

>>33375612
>I'm looking for friends, not random people to talk to.

that's how you make friends ding dong by talking to people and seeing if there's any shared interests or good conversations to bond over

>>33375663
I have tried that. I get turned away. People don't like strangers jumping into their conversations.