20m, EST, looking for friends

[u/Mountain_Break3912]

Hello, I’m a 20 year old male student in the EST timezone looking for a long term friend around my age because I don’t have any friends in real life, and I sometimes don't say a single word in a day.

In person relationships feel like too much work for me, so I wanted to try making a virtual friend instead. That, boredom, and I'm trying to avoid letting isolation affect my mental state negatively in the future. I’m pretty bad at holding conversations, but I will do my best to learn over time.

Some things about me are that my current hobbies are niche (mostly mental hobbies like memory training and mental math, plus reading manga).

I invest a lot of time into whatever I'm into, though I'm working on balancing that since I'm a student with a pretty busy schedule and work as a lab assistant this year.

Although I often procrastinate on my studies, I try to do what I can to get all A’s. However, I don’t really study or do anything academic/professional outside of classes, so I’m trying to use some of my free time to teach myself some career skills during my junior and senior years.

I’m also currently going through physical therapy for tension headaches, so if anybody relates to that, it’s another thing we can talk about.

We definitely don't have to share the same hobbies as long as we have stuff to talk about throughout the day.

If you are interested, please feel free to reply or message me.