Raise a hand!

*raises*
I need to meet new people
The question is how

I do sometimes.



School's a good place.

Yeah?


Don't know about that

Yes I do!



How to go about meeting new people has had me perplexed for months and months and months, and I guess it'll continue having me perplexed for quite some time...

Sometimes I think moving away might help - I feel as if the people I live around now have gotten too used to me being a 'loner'.

More than I'd ever admit to.



Why not?

Anyways, I wish I could give you some suggestions. I'm really not the person to offer advice when it comes to this stuff.

Yeah I know what you mean
Then again, moving away would probably not solve all that much. I don't know about you, but I'd probably just end up being a loner in a new location


That's no good

<doesn't know what to say

Because...I doubt I'm going to become very friendly with them


That's ok

There's nothing to say.



Why's that?



I still think support groups are also a good place to meet people.

Has to be a better response than that out there!


Man senses


Yeah, it'd probably be a good place to start for someone looking to make friends

Not really.



I think it would be, yeah. You're still against going to any support groups?

More so than ever before

Why Krakow? Kind of like the Swedish forum problem?

Mmmhm, people that go to those meetings are just different than me. I wouldn't do very well with them

So that's out of the question!

You should go to one though! yeah!

Are you sure? I mean, the meetings won't be full of people just like those off the forum, etc. I'm sure there would be some people that seem less outgoing, etc.



I've been trying to find one for ages. I can't find anything.

I don't know
It's a support group for anxiety problems anyway, and for all ages. So...maybe just a few of them would actually suffer from social problems. And out of those few, maybe just one or two would be around my own age. I doubt I'd get along with them

I think I'd be up to meeting a person 1-1 after chatting with them for a while, and seeing that we have similar problems. I'm desperate enough to give that a try even if it scares me to death. But a support group...I don't think it's for me


Are you sure Cowie? There has to be something in the Toronto area? Maybe it's a bit of a trip, but it's not as if you'd need to go everyday. So maybe you could find one in Toronto?

Yeah, I guess there'd be quite a 'variety' of ages and problems there. Even if you weren't to make friends though, I think something like that's good. Just being able to go somewhere, be social, and talk/listen to people who understand.



Well, that's good. Have you gotten an answer back from that girl you emailed?



The only thing I found locally was an adults depression group. I'm not really depressed, so it wouldn't be fair for me to go to that.

As for Toronto or any of the other cities, that's too far to travel for something like that. I doubt anyone would drive me.