So I recently moved to a new school this past year during my sophomore year. I really didn't have any friends at my old school either so I was excited to finally have a fresh start. I had aqauntances at my new school that I had met years before through little league basketball.
One of the girls was super kind and really helped me out, she let. me sit with her at lunch, she introduced me to new people, invited me to her birthday party etc... I started to feel bad because I still hadn't made any friends of my own and I didn't want her to feel like she was obligated to always be there from r me like a little kid, she could only do so much.
Some classmates were very welcoming and would start talking with me. I always tried to be super nice back and be very friendly and confident, however they just remained people that I briefly chatted with in class, nothing more. Just aquinences. Despite all my best efforts at being extremely friendly it seemed that one cared to have anything to do with me outside of school.
On my basketball and track team, same story, everyone was super friendly and we would get along very well. We had good laughs, joked around, everything. Nothing ever came of it though. I've never been asked to hang out or do anything with people, and I don't know what the problem is. One girl on my basketball team said everyone else on the team thought I hated them, and I just don't understand at all why this could be. She didn't give me a real reason as to why so I guess I'll never know.
So now did ng the summer I literally have nothing to do , I see everyone else going the mall with their friends hanging out late at night having fun living up their teenage years, while I have to do everything on my own.
Any thoughts or suggestions. on what I may be doing wrong and how to fix the. problem?
Quote: One girl on my basketball team said everyone else on the team thought I hated them, and I just don't understand at all why this could be. She didn't give me a real reason as to why so I guess I'll never know.
So I think you must be throwing out vibes that you want to be on your own, you are excluding yourself from groups because you decided you dont belong to them as you haven't been explictly invited to them.
Perhaps you could ask a group you would like to hang out with what they are doing after whatever and ask if you can join them?
Or invite someone to do something with you outside of school?
You might get a bad reaction from some people for all manner of reasons almost none of which will have anything to do with you, but dont assume that someone who rejects you 'on behalf of the group' really speaks for the group, maybe they do but they are probably just an asshole with a big mouth and the others dont want that turned onto them.
In anycase i think fairs fair right? You haven't invited anyone to do anything with you either so how it is someone elses fault?
I think you need to be proactive.
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I say this as someone who is going to be a lawyer soon (which I only mention to say that I know A LOT of abrasive people); when people don't like to get closer with other people, there are pretty reliably 3 reasons:
1. The person doesn't give the people around them a welcoming energy, or they're emotionally draining/negative.
2. The person makes the people around them feel insecure.
3. The person has said or done something that is socially taboo, for whatever reason.
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