Has anyone had worsening social skills before?

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Well thanks for trying to help out but also keep in mind you are still young too. Just cause you broke 30 doesn't mean you're on your own here on out. There's still hope regardless of age, you never know when things are gonna take a drastic turn for the better.

Feel free to message me bro, I'm on here a lot these days too. I'm trying to start a meetup group here in Wisconsin, haven't found anyone yet but I'll go door to door until I give up lol.

I experience alot of the same things. My only difference I managed to find a wife who was charitable enough to commit to me while my "relevance window" was still open and I was 25. I am now 37. That window has seemingly closed. In my life at this time at least.

And, I am very lucky to have her. I dont want to be ungrateful, but not really having anyone to socialize with is very very hard. I simply dont identify with hardly anyone. I have one friend and a few acquaintances that all moved on in life, had children, or caught up in careers, and I dont have the capacity for any of that. They have different interests and ways of thinking, Im basically the same. So we no longer relate the way we did, or not at all. And since I had, in particular one close friend I relied on for all my social contact, then since lost it, the realization of just how separated I am from todays world is stunning and overwhelming. And that's the feeling I really relate to. Looking around and thinking, where the hell will I find someone I can even relate to?

I haven't actually gone and made a friend for a very long time. Even the one I have left, and the few kinda-ish friends, came from the same original source like 15-20 yrs ago. I never knew how to make friends, but in school (HS, I didnt go to college), there were people just around, and in a school of 5,000 I was bound to bump into one or two or three oddballs, which I did. But now, even at work, I cannot talk to anyone new. Whenever I have to, I struggle severely with it and am at a loss of how to identify.

So yeah it does get worse, and as my story shows (and to actually tie it back to the OP, lest we hijack his thread AND LordRikers comment) it is very important to secure those relationships when you are young because it WILL get MUCH harder. But, you can develop very meaningful relationships when you are younger much easier. If you shell up now you are straight up f'd. Push yourself a little because doing that only gets harder the longer you wait to a point where you basically no longer can.

Again, a feeling I relate to. Even in the "good old days" I use to think about killing myself constantly from the pressure of that feeling of alienation. Even with what i did, and do have. But, you never know what tomorrow may bring. And Im a total pessimist by nature, but that doesn't make that statement any less true. I, at one times, was very, very close to suicide in my early 20's. Had a girl at the time that things were breaking off and it felt like my world was falling apart and not worth living. Convinced. Totally convinced. But I ultimately did not, and turned up meeting someone better.

Point is even though it may feel like today the best solution is to end it, we're making a final declaration that we are positive we know the future, and that future brings nothing good. You or I do not have said capacity to do this.

Seems like a good idea. Though I'd have to imagine there's a large spread of geographic locations among us. But if it became feasible thatd be cool.

I'm sorry to hear that you feel that way. I've felt that way too (and from what I've read, it sounds like I'm significantly younger than you at 22, and have still experienced these feelings of not measuring up to others that I didn't think would have it so well in life), but saying "for you young guys with these things, definitely don't go near Facebook" doesn't sound like very sound advice; what's true for one person may not necessarily be true for all. I would, like you, however, caution against using Facebook, but nobody really knows until they sign up, you know?

i have experienced a deterioration in my social skills on occasions that i determine that someone is in disagreement with me but is nevertheless acquiescent in a greater sense. it is the worst thing they can do. i do not like it at all.

i do not find it necessary to have many social skills because i do not find them to be useful (largely).

Yes. I never thought I would miss my high school days. But my social skills, while never strong, were so much better back then. I could have real conversations with people on a fairly regular basis, I contributed to discussions in class, and I was more outspoken at work. Now I'm like the invisible man, helplessly awkward and rarely speaking unless spoken to. It has definitely gotten worse.

I wonder what can be done about this? I feel invisible all the time these days, so it's not like you can even get practice and improve those social skills if you can't even find people to be social with.

It's such a catch 22