I hate this too. Every time I've ever gone somewhere to help make friends, everybody else already seems to know eachother, and I find joining in very hard because of always getting confused with ''how to join in without butting in'' every time. And even if people do let me sit with them, I may say a few words to them or they may say a few words to me, and then they all sit talking about something that they all have in common (since they already know eachother), and I just kind of sit there listening because I'm too shy to speak up (and have the fear that no-one will listen if I do say something), and there's always a ''life and soul'' person in every group who take up all the attention, which kind of erases shy people like me. And then I end up coming away without making any friends.
I just don't know how people do it.
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