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i'm an idiot at making friends

I don't understand adult friendships. How do people even make friends when they're adults? Aren't literally all friendships made when you're an adult a transactional one? Isn't there always some sort of ulterior motive behind every adult friendship anyway even if you think there isn't? Okay, granted, I didn't use to always think this way, but I keep proving myself wrong. First of all, I don't make friends the "traditional" way because I'm too introverted like that. I don't make the first move. I don't speak the first word. I don't say the first greeting. In fact, if people aren't the first to say hi to me, I can continue staying unseen for all of 4 years being tuition classmates without ever saying a word to my neighbour, let alone knowing any of their names or what they looked like. The only person I spoke to in that 4-year tuition class was the same teacher, and that was it. I sat in the front row right where the teacher s...