Jack1989, 35

Hi, my name is Jack, I have had severe depression and anxiety since I was around 8 years of age. It became so unbearable I dropped out of school at 14 and spent almost 5 years in near isolation. I am now almost 23 and close to getting my OSSD to continue on to University, where I plan to study physics in some capacity.

Because of that huge gap of experience in my life and my atypical personality, I have a very, very hard time making friends, and an even harder time meeting women. I have never been in any relationship with a woman, and have not even had a flirtatious encounter with one. I have tried to engage women face to face and through dating sites, with no success in even getting anything more than friendly banter.

As I will be going to university within a year or two, I want to have at least some experience speaking to people, women in particular, so I make less of a fool of myself when I get into that environment, and hopefully not fail miserably.

I'm looking to converse with a few women, or interesting men (the latter not in a flirtatious way), and I'm not expecting to even get any responses or results but it's worth a shot. I'm not completely oblivious as to how to speak to someone, just how to flirt with girls.