Okay, pretty much all my life I've lived in the country. Also, I've been EXTREMELY introverted the majority of my life, disabling so actually. Then I go up and help kaelynn move out for the summer and it was completely different. There, I had conversations and smoke breaks on a regular basis with people literally 24hrs a day. I went from being so introverted I couldn't even finish high school or hold a job to making friends by the handfuls and desperately seeking some human interaction.

Since I've gotten back from ohio, I have been going fucking ape shit! Where the hell is everybody!?!?! Where I'm at, there's basically no body around my age or at least I don't know about them. And that's the problem. The days of me just rotting away at home are over. I've been busy as hell for weeks on end now and I love it. The problem is, out of all the stuff I'm doing, nothing is giving me the opportunity to meet people.

I'm not looking for a regular job right now. My uncle and cousin have more than enough work to keep me busy for as long as I'm willing to look into the future that is. I at some point want to go to some community colleges to get some classes for electrical, trim carpentry, etc under my belt. But any type of college cost money, usually lots of it. Right now, money is anything but at a surplus. I'm planning on checking out some parties at the local college but I gotta wait for the summer to end for that.

My basic question is, in a situation like mine how in the hell am I supposed to meet people? I've thought of damn near everything. I don't want to be this freaky dude just hanging out at a college I don't even attend looking for people to talk to.

The reason I'm like this is mainly because of my upbringing. My family and I are quiet people and we keep to ourselves. That's how everybody I've ever known has been. I mean I never even had sleepovers or anything. Transportation has always been a problem and so I just adapted to the idea of friends at school and family at home. Well now that I'm not in school any more and was uncapabale of making any friends while there, what the hell do I do now?

All I ask is for you to be gentle and paitient. It seems that in growing up, everyone but me learned how to talk to people and make friends and stuff. Well I gotta learn sometime so why wait? Thanks for any and all your help.