>sit in the background of meetups alone
>don't have anyone to talk to and no one wants to have a conversation with me
>if I ask for help in the thread I get unanimous replies that asking "how are you" is dead end cancer and "hurr durr you're uninteresting if you have nothing interesting to say no one will talk to you"
>every once in a while I get to interact with someone only for them to ask me "how are you"?
>right... but whatever I salvage it FOR THEM and give an actual reply that opens up follow up questions or topics to discuss
>"cool" and they walk away
>if I try asking them questions instead, they keep looking around and past me to find something else to do / talk to then answer with one word conversation enders and leave
>proceed to literally watch the same person walk up to someone else
>ask them the same shity "how are you"
>get a literal one word answer "good"
>proceed to continue asking them MULTIPLE questions
>all while getting single word answers
>eventually they start talking more openly and I stop listening in
really what the fuck, how in the ever loving fuck am I so revolting and off-putting that people don't want to talk to me without even knowing me. no one even bothers asking me 2-3 questions let alone fucking interviewing me for 10min while only getting single word answers