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I'd always thought that making friends and talking to strangers was super hard. My whole life, I've struggled along with just a couple friends...
Recently I've been reshaping my life and have been trying to make new friends... I'm still working on the execution, but just talking to people and finding common ground and being social has become SO much easier than I always thought it was. I think the trick was to just stop caring what people thought about me and being proud to be my genuine self.
There's a group I've been meeting up with regularly and we're going to the zoo this Sunday, and bowling next Sunday, on top of our usually scheduled Thursday afternoon general social meetups :)
Another thing that helps is being an adult. Most people develop their social anxiety during their school years, where they are forced into an institution with a bunch of little psychopaths and never get the chance to reinvent themselves or meet completely new social groups.
Once you graduate high school, most people are much more mature, you can choose where and when to meet people so that they will likely align with your values and interests, and if you don't like a particular social group or they don't like you, you can just try out other ones.
Schools are hell, it's borderline child abuse with the social conditions