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... You're an anti-social person. You tend to shy away from social things. You're not a big fan of people, but what can you do? They're everywhere. Open up a little bit more and I'm sure you'll make some more friends.

A lot of things are possible, not everything is plausible. But for what you're saying you're wanting, the answer to both is yes. However, if you're looking for an assurance that the time you put in, the work, and effort you have put in and will need to put in is going to be worth it (by getting what you want) no one can give you a 100% answer on that. There isn't an equivalent exchange in this world nor guarantees.

There are females out there that would overpass a guy that has no experience. But that's not every female. I entirely can't speak for other women but that isn't something that would bother me in a potential mate. I would want to know why, but it wouldn't be a reason I'd reject someone. For myself I would prefer someone with no experience over the guy that has had hundreds of girlfriends. That might be something that puts men up in the hierarchy among their peers, but for me it's a warning sign. I can not be the only female feels/thinks that way; so I don't think a lack of experience being something that is going to prevent a relationship.

Guitar, drawing, and story writing are all creative arts; which means they can be started and honed at any time. If you want to progress at them all you have to do is apply yourself and put the work/effort in. There a lot of people they do 'everything they are supposed to do", and then later on wonder why they are unhappy, why they don't know themselves and so often they will make a change and sort of start over. My mother went back to school at 41 to get her masters in what she finally realized what she wanted/needed to do. People start up all kinds of things later in life, or return to things they once loved. You might have to work a little more diligently but they are things that will come back to you (like riding a bike) to put you into a groove of developing them. Now you might not become famous at those things, nor may you be able to be so good at them to be able to support yourself doing them but there is no reason that you can can't start from now with them. There's no reason you can't add new abilities to your repertoire at any age either.

I have some unnamed math related learning disability. It was pretty distressing growing up, so I feel you.

I know that Bible Belt women tend to be cautious around shy and lonely men. For some reason, they think someone like me is a serial killer in waiting while a loud extroverted guy who beats up people and owns weapons with the intent of shooting someone if they think are "threatened" is somehow a suitable partner. It's sickening and discourages me.

Are Christians not supposed to have sex?

I don't think that is necessarily specific to those women. There's many people out there, male and female that are very suspect of 'quiet' people. The unknown scares people, they can't see/read your thoughts and when people don't know something they often will default to thinking the worst. I had a classmate that made a comment about another, that if any of us were crazy/a freak(kinky type) it'd be that certain classmate because "it's always the quiet one"; her words.

I can see how that might be a bit more prevalent in the south though. I've been to the South a couple times but just going by the general thoughts about people of the South, there's an idea that they are rather candid. There's that Southern hospitality and a 'welcoming laid back nature' that speaks to a certain trust that makes it so that many don't lock their doors at night. I've not saying this is a dead ringer for where you are, but I suspect some of the mentality is still there. Add in the "Everything is bigger in Texas(or just the south)" it sets a norm for the area that big personalities is the it thing. So a quiet and shy people would entirely seem a bit oddball. And odd things are scary. It's a silly notion but that's often how minds work. Your personality, probably just isn't super suited to the region and you get dwarfed by all those big loud dudes. On the other hand you could very well be someone's diamond in the rough out there.

The advantage to the the loud dude strutting around and putting his attitude on display is, you kinda know what you're going to get there. He's not really hiding much of anything. The draw to this type of guy I think generally stems from a few places. Do you have an understanding of why women would be drawn to these kinds of men?

Why they are drawn to these men I think has to do with the chauvinistic religious atmosphere in the culture I live in. The Baptist faith is very strong here and it upholds men while treats women as lower than men. The ironic thing is that Baptist men will criticize Islam and Catholicism's treatment of women but they have no problem saying women can't drive, talk too much on their cellphones, women need to shut up and quit complaining, have no business in politics or business, harm them physically if they "get out of line", and objectify their bodies. They also slut shame women despite demanding them to perform oral sex on command from them but think of themselves as "studs" if they have a lot of sex. My mother, despite her control freak nature, believes men should always lead and women are supposed to follow or else they are lesbians and I used to get my hair cut by a woman who didn't want a female president because "women argue". I used to have an unrequited love spell for the sister of someone I used to be friends with but she only wanted to be with a Christian man, even though she was open to pre-marital sex. I used to have crushes for two girls who were twins who had boyfriends constantly as well as lots of sex but they still called themselves Christian.