I know it's a whole circular reasoning thing bc i wna make friends but dont have friends to go to events with, but genuinely the idea of showing up somewhere alone and then ending up alone in a crowd of people is so terrifying to me. It has happened before and I just end up feeling really shitty. It's probably the only thing holding me back from going to stuff alone. People say to join clubs to make friends, but then that's just really broad to me. I've tried to find other people who are also alone so that we can buddy up, but if everyone's already in a group it gets a whole lot more intimidating. I've approached groups before, but in the past they would talk to me for a bit before turning back to each other and start talking about things that I wouldn't understand (e.g. talking about a mutual they know, something that they experienced tgt, etc). IDK. any advice?