TheBigMike
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I'm 18 and just graduated highschool in june, left with no friends. Trying to make some type of connections after high school has been such a black pilling experience. Everyone either has their own cliques already. It doesn't help that I live in a small town, whenever you "fuck up", everybody remembers that. It's part of the reason why I literally can't make friends at my local community college I'm attending.
I even tried going to raves with some family friends, just in a desperate search to make any form of connection, let alone just talk to people my age. The group I was with was already pretty tight and had established friendships. I felt pretty excluded the entire time, tried talking to strangers at the rave, mostly just ignored me.
Currently working two jobs right now, one at my local mall and the other at some fast food joint. None of my coworkers really talk to me or bother to get to know me.
Closest thing I had to a girl talking to me recently was a girl who I work with at the fast food place saw me at the second job, she told me I didn't look as "geeky and small" in my regular clothing (we have to wear company uniforms at the fast food place)
I wouldn't even consider myself completely ugly either, I'm 5'11 and have an average face. (maybe I'm coping without realizing?)
Genuinely what do I even do? Am I just having a hard time adjusting to adult life? In highschool I didn't have many friends but at least some people acknowledged me.
I even tried going to raves with some family friends, just in a desperate search to make any form of connection, let alone just talk to people my age. The group I was with was already pretty tight and had established friendships. I felt pretty excluded the entire time, tried talking to strangers at the rave, mostly just ignored me.
Currently working two jobs right now, one at my local mall and the other at some fast food joint. None of my coworkers really talk to me or bother to get to know me.
Closest thing I had to a girl talking to me recently was a girl who I work with at the fast food place saw me at the second job, she told me I didn't look as "geeky and small" in my regular clothing (we have to wear company uniforms at the fast food place)
I wouldn't even consider myself completely ugly either, I'm 5'11 and have an average face. (maybe I'm coping without realizing?)
Genuinely what do I even do? Am I just having a hard time adjusting to adult life? In highschool I didn't have many friends but at least some people acknowledged me.