u/Brave_Idea_3878

In the UK college is like the two years before uni for any confusion. I don't really know what to do because I don't want to be a loner. I have a few classmates on snap and insta but we don't really talk. One of them was really friendly to me over text but honestly I stopped replying despite having 1:1 shared interests because after a while it felt like I was doing all the work and I'm not going to have someone talk to me out of obligation. She is very sweet and I hold no ill will, unfortunately I just think she's a social recluse, she only talks to people in class when she's forced to work with others and she blanks me despite having spoken on text.

It's the end of the year nearly and I just feel I've wasted it. I was homeschooled prior and all the friends I did have went to another vocational college. I know it's hard when you have a disability but I just don't know how to start conversations when my class are introverts and I don't know anyone else. There's a group of students who every lunch play card games with each other and they're nerdy but seem so sociable. I just don't know how to get in there or something like there.

Maybe I should try again with the girl I share hobbies with I just don't want to embarrass myself.

I've gone to college in an area I'm not from. I have some people from my classes on snap and insta but no real friends. Nobody really talks in my maths class except for a group of boys who went to school together, my physics class is even worse and my English lit class is very very talkative but I'm sat next to two introverts who are shy. I just don't know what to do. I didn't make enough effort the first few weeks because everyone already ad groups. I occasionally follow random classmates on insta but that doesn't foster connection by itself. I get talking to a few but again they're kinda reclusive and I don't want to overstay in their DMs.

I know there's a general friendship epidemic and there's a lot of people in college that just sit alone but I have to be doing something wrong. I see cool groups playing uno and stuff pretty frequently. There's not many extracurriculars offered either but like there are people with friends. I'm just not one.