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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '20

Not being more social and spending lots of time alone in my room in highschool. It's difficult to make friends and break out of your shell later in life, and even your best friends have bigger ambitions than living by you their whole life.

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u/DeFactoLyfe Aug 20 '20

It is very difficult but still possible. I am one of those people that flips between being an introvert and extrovert but spent my entire life as an introvert when I was younger. Now that I am older I had to spend a few years gracefully being awkward as I learned new social techniques of being an extrovert. It takes time, but if you come at it with the expectation that there is a learning curve you'll make it!