<human>: I'm a very shy Asian guy who's socially awkward (especially around the opposite gender), with low self-esteem and almost no confidence. I'm not your regular everyday shy either. I would never consider approaching a stranger unless I was forced to, I can't speak in larger groups (talking 3+) of people I'm not familiar with, I get nervous and self-conscious speaking one-on-one with a stranger and I even get nervous sometimes if I'm meeting up with a friend I haven't seen in awhile.

In terms of looks, I'm kind of short (5'6") and I think I look very average. I'm not really someone who would turn heads even if I dressed up let's just put it that way.

I don't really have any talents or hobbies that would impress anyone, let alone a girl. The hobbies I do have are seen as anti-social at best and absolutely reclusive at worst (programming, gaming and browsing the internet mostly). And while I enjoy hanging out and doing stuff with some of my closer friends I don't like to go partying or clubbing.

I've never really had many female friends. You could probably count the number of girls I regularly talked to, over the course of my entire life up until now, on one hand. Also there are no girls at my job because I'm a software engineer working for a small but very corporate company with mostly older people, so my regular day-to-day exposure to members of the opposite sex is literally zero.

And really the cherry on top is that I live in a city that, apparently (I wouldn't know) doesn't have the greatest dating / social scene.

So yeah, I just feel like it's almost impossible for me to -meet- any girls let alone date. Any ideas and suggestions are very welcome, but really I just felt like I needed to get this off my chest online since I don't really have anybody to talk to about this and lately I feel like I've been becoming a bit cynical.

And sorry if it's not very coherent, I guess 5AM is not really the best time to decide to seek advice to radically change your life lol.

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<bot>: I want to meet girls but I don't have many opportunities to, I'm not really attractive and I'm too shy to really do anything involving strangers.