I don't want this to come across like I'm begging for sympathy, just looking for some genuine advice without sounding too soppy.
I'm 20 and I've never been in a relationship- yet it feels like everybody around me has, and because of that I just feel defective. I've never had any interest shown to me by girls/women and it feels pretty ****ty.
I don't know if people see me and just think I'm ugly but I guess that's the only explanation.
I've been on Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, PoF, others like Boo, FB Dating, even tried Yubo etc, so many, I don't get likes that often (maybe one every few weeks, if that.) Never had a match (with a real person, only those fake accounts promoting OF etc..)
I had a few instances recently where on Yubo for instance, where I was in a few lives and on one they were doing a game of attractive or not, the persons question was to say who was the "most clapped" person who was in the live, going off of photos and videos on people's profiles - I was the "most clapped" , it seems people do not like me at all regardless to be in a ralationship/find me attractive or even just to be friends. - I want to keep this post solely about relationships though.
I'm sort of contempt with being single and I do pretty much everything on my own but I don't want to be like this for good, it just seems that no one finds me attractive at all, I have a decent amount of hobbies - a lot I do not do anymore or that often now as a lot i can't do by myself either.
I'm 21 in about half a year or so now and feel I've missed a lot of what 99% of people my age and past generations have done in their teens and early 20s.
This has been in my head for months, if not years and doesn't seem to get any better. I don't know what to do. I must add I do not just want the "benefits" (you know what I mean)/one night stands, I just want to find someone for me.
I have tried approaching people I am attracted to but never worked either. I am very introverted and have aocial anxiety as is, it is a lot of effort for me to approach someone in these situations as is, but they do not care for that. I am not saying I haven't tried and this won't/can't lead to anything, but the more times I have done it, the more it makes me not wanting to try again/more and more it makes me feel no one is attracted to me.
Any advice?