See that's me. 12 years going on 13 at 33. Ok, yes I had sex with a whole TWO GIRLS in college willingly and tbh they weren't like ugly or anything, probably solid 6-7s. I had sex with one of them ten times and the other one twice, the second time being my last on my 21st birthday where birthday sex was like my present.
I have tried and tried and tried since and I haven't been able to. You guys forget about the mentalcels. It's not that I'm so ugly or my actual personality is fucked, it's that I have a personality disorder. That has been exacerbated by life situation and extreme social isolation to the point that I freeze up around women and say weird shit without realizing it and can't manage my emotions in the moment at fucking all because my disorder is a goddamn emotional dysregulation disorder and I freak the fuck out when I think a girl doesn't like me or takes something I say bad. Not like make a scene freak out like freeze and have to go to the bathroom and have a quiet panic attack and come back sweating and never get a second date.
Yes, if I didn't have a mental illness I probably would have a steady girlfriend. So my struggle is way fucking different and I've been in therapy and on meds for fucking years and it doesn't help because I am just too goddamn broken to not be a hermit who doesn't inflict his existence on anyone and I am the family shame and I probably would ACTUALLY in the real world be better off dead because of the hell I live in and my complete lack of ability to provide anything stable for anyone around me to connect with or enjoy being around.