When your social skills fail you

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Hey everyone. I just need to let this out. I just got back from the national convention of a youth group I'm involved in and feel like I've been completely f****d by my poor social skills. Convention is basically the only time that I'm extroverted and really want to socialize. I met a lot of really cool people and had a blast. But now that its done I'm feeling really sh***y. I've had the chance to make new friends but feel that I've pushed every one of them away by my poor social skills including, of course, the first girl I have met who is both really pretty and shares my interests (consider that I've been going to these things since 7th grade and am now a rising senior and she is the first girl like this that I have met). So while all of my NT friends are walking away with many new friends of their own I feel like socially I've gotten nothing out of convention and continue to be perpetually on the outside looking in in any social situation. I don't normally let my poor social skills bother me too much, but it sucks ass when I get f****d by them so hard.

Do not feel bad. We are all individuals with different personalities. You push people away because you might fear someone getting too close to you. By the way, a real friend would stick by you regardless. And real friends are rare to find.