After a breakup in November with ex LTR who I was in a relationship for 2 years, I’ve slowly lost my confidence and social group to the point where I’m spending most weekends alone and not really doing anything. I used to love going to parties where females were drawn to me and I was always having a good time. Now a days I dread going to social outings and I’m honestly even afraid to see my boys from this social anxiety. I can’t even pop on discord where they all talk in fear of being social. I’m decently attractive and I notice that that can give me a head start when talking to people, but I start to get into my head where as before I followed my intuition. It’s just crazy to me that before I was considered the chad of the social group I was in then became some sort of social recluse. Even when they hit me up to chill I’m still in fear of being awkward and not connecting where as before I didn’t really give a fuck and they loved me.

Now that corona is ending and things are opening up I’m feeling pretty insecure and anxious about going out again. I’m not sure if this is because I’ve become low in social hierarchy or something from before thats only coming up now or a combination of both. I’ve become so socially awful that its gotten to the point where I think that I might have aspergers or high functioning autism. I notice that people dont treat me the same as they do to other people, and that my social encounters look different from other peoples.

Any tips on gaining back social skills? Or rising in confidence again?