Is it too late to develop a social life in your mid 20s if you never had one prior?
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You start a social life many times on your life. The people around you will change many times, and your relationships will change as well.
Don't feel pushed to start a social life.
Also, it's a skill you will take time thlo learn and make lots of mistakes, don't worry, it's normal.
And don't look for others approval in general, ota just wrong, but perfectly normal to look for. Still wrong
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My most social years were in my 30's!
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No its not too late
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My 20s were complete garbage. I can't remember most of what happened there because nothing ever happened. At the end I didn't see any hope for myself and had some disturbing thoughts. But I've come around somehow and met my now best friends and many other nice people during my 30s. I owe them my life basically. Though I still have trouble finding romantic connection and I'm not trying anymore.
Where I meet people: At work, neighbors, hiking or board game groups
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I feel like the most important thing to take away here is to not feel pushed to have a social life. One city I lived in I had one friend I really considered a friend and the rest were mostly in the background (though fun to hang out with time to time).
For me a social life is enough if I find a single person who is capable of listening and rolls with bouncing ideas off each other.
May or may not apply to OP but zero social life sounds like they're an introvert.
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Mid 20s? You're barely out of your teenage years, of course you can. Now if anyone has some tips for mid 40s...
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Can second boardgames. these are the sociable nerds
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Nah. You can make friends at any age. Most of it comes down to showing interest in the person you want to befriend and asking them about themselves.
Imo as an ADHD person this world best for me. The hard part is finding the interesting person I wanna befriend. Most have happened casually through games or events. If you board game. Or pickle ball. Or shit join a cooking class. Good chance you'll be interested in someone in the bunch.
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You number friends?
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Absolutely.
I was an absolute loner for the better part of a decade. Then my depression just disappeared. I joined a community around a streamer and had loads of fun. Just find the intersection between your preferred subject (literary analysis, anime tiddies, etc.) and your preferred communication method. (Text forum, voice chat, real life meetings, etc.) You'll find at least someone you can hang with, maybe more. Just go at it with openness and joy. -
They are obviously ranked too. duh. Number 1 and 2 are always fighting for rank.
With 18 friends they only have 2 left in the 20 friend limit. It's very competitive. -
I mean he needed his MySpace top 8
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Dude, it's literally never too late. x3
There's old people fuck-a-thons in retirement homes for heaven's sake, lol. And those people are almost a century old.
Get on meetup.com if you aren't sure what's out there, but there's all sorts of fun stuff going on! Meetup is platonic.
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My experience has been that you basically restart the process of building a new social circle every few years. Life circumstances change. People move away. Some relationships grow apart. Some start families. So there's always going to be others in the same boat as you looking for new connections.
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Mid-20s is honestly the perfect time to start
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The most difficult part is keeping your privacy respected. Normals will require you congregate on some proprietary, data-thieving platform to participate.
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Too late? No way! Success depends a lot on your expectations and sense of self, so I would encourage you to be in therapy to get those straight. We all need therapy, but now would be a good time for you, before starting a new way of life.
But no way. You are perfectly fine.
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Definitely get therapy, everyone should. Also don't avoid socializing while u work on yourself In therapy, dual path it!
