>>33682821

It's really just a matter of having that one worthwhile interaction that doesn't make you feel like you're in mortal danger afterwards. Some people are too "Introverted" to ever go out and have that experience. Shit turned around for me when I had just resigned to being a permavirgin, but it shifted the risk profile in my head. It stopped being a genetic life and deaths struggle because they weren't going to date me anyway. Became able to talk to them like normal people, and then eventually one invited me to a concert because her "friend bailed on her."
>Dentist
I hear you there. I grew up before pic related had been invented, and I was too clumsy to use traditional floss. As a kid the dentist would intentionally try to make my gums bleed and humiliate me to my parents over it. Never had a good experience and it never seemed necessary. Never got cavities.