I have no social skills, am incredibly boring, and want to end it
 

Sorry for the emo post, but amongst other 2p2'ers I'm sure it's a fairly common problem. This is something I've dealt with for about 10 years since I was a freshman in college to now, when I'm applying to law school. Whenever I go out with people, I can never join in the conversation, and am usually just that wallflower who just sits on the sidelines while everyone else talks. It's gotten so bad, that I've even become uncomfortable with the only 2 people who are my friends.

I just hate being so awkward, and wanted to know how to fix this. I'm not overweight, or anything, on the contrary I'm in good shape 6'2 195, so that's not the problem. Anything that I can possible do to ameliorate this problem? Should I get a life coach, read the news more to become more interesting? Get more hobbies? Get a self help book? Sorry if this is long, I feel like I've just been in a rut for so long and there is just no way out of it [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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I'm interested to see replies; I'm not nearly as badly off as you but I see myself a little bit here

Re: I have no social skills, am incredibly boring, and want to end it
 

Force yourself to talk to strangers several times a day. It is irrelivent if you come off sounding like a boring idiot to a person you'll never truely know. Like everything, social skills take practice.

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start random conversations with strangers. start with ugly/old people who will be glad to talk with you. about anything. you can even say, 'how about this weather?'. it doesn't matter, this is just practice. start going to cafes and stores with overly friendly staff, have conversations with them too. more practice.

eventually, you can move on to talking to people you actually want to talk to. it'll be easy after you've spent a month or two getting used to talking to strangers.

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Try therapy?

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do you have a gf? longest relationship?

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Re: I have no social skills, am incredibly boring, and want to end it
 

Therapy and medication can help.

WTF with posting that pic?

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nsfw perhaps?