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I participated in a “womens group” today. There were around five girls. We shared stuff about ourselves. This girl shared how she doesn’t have many friends and doesn’t get along with the people in her city because there are lots of trump supporters. I said I didn’t have lots of friends either. We made rules for the group and one girl (a different girl) said “branching out to people and making new friends” and the girl with few friends was looking at me. In the end we shared concluding words and she said “you all seem like nice people and I look forward to getting to know you better” and she was looking at me.

Look, maybe I'm imagining things but I feel like the moment I reacted the age of 14 having a platonic relationship between a guy and a girl became nearly impossible.

Since a young age I was always a nerd, and as many of you might know it's hard to come by 6 year old girls who are willing to play GTA so from a young my friend group was pretty limited to all guys.

It was only in the last year of middle school that I finally started developing some decent female friendships and then highschool came and it all crushed down. All my childhood guy friends decided to go to a different highschool then I did and I was pretty much stuck in this new environment, surrounded by my new female friends.

And that was the moment I started noticing something odd.

You see, I don't want to brag or anything but I consider myself to be quite good looking, in fact, I've been asked to model a couple of times just like my mother did when she was younger. But I almost never got hit on during middle school.

I always blamed it on me probably not looking good enough or guys preferring the more provocative type of girls which would roam the school rather then an art/theater loving nerd.

But when I entered highschool it all changed, and I mean, REALLY changed.

I'm a pretty friendly individual so I like to walk around classes and talk to different people, and so, surely enough, I soon got acquaintanced with a couple of guys. At first I didn't think much of it, I only thought that I'm making new friends and that's all, but turns out the guys had a different thoughts in mind since they began confessing to me, one after the other, and after being rejected they would stop talking to me and pretend as if I wasn't even around.

Now, I'm scared of attempting to talk to any guys that I'm interested in only as a friend since it always ends up in the same way.

So here is my question, do platonic relationships with guys stop existing after a certain age or there is simply something wrong with me?