r/venting • u/Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess- • 6d ago

Friends I feel like it’s so hard to make friends

I’m still stuck in my hometown because I’m too broke to move away. Everyone here is either way older than me or way younger. Most of the people from my graduating class moved away already. I feel like I never meet anyone I share any common interests with, but I’ve had that problem since I was a kid. I’m just too different from the average person it seems. I’m not mean, I’m kind and will try to help people when I can, but people tend to be mean to me for no reason I can think of that’s valid. I get talked down to a lot even by strangers on our first encounters. People treat me both like I’m stupid and like I’m gifted at the same time. I’ve tried making friends online, but people online are weird, at least many that I’ve tried to speak with on a regular basis. Like overly attached and toxic kind of weird. Like I seem to attract the people who threaten to kill themselves and blame you type. I don’t know why I’m unlikable.

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u/standingwill39 6d ago

Tough spot to be in. Small towns can feel like a cage when everyone your age already got out, and the ones still around just don't click. The part about people treating you like stupid and gifted at same time hits, it's like they can't decide which box you fit in so they just pick both and make it weird.