My name is Dren.

I'm a guy in my 30s with no real friends. I live in a city with 6 million people, yet I feel very isolated. It's probably because I grew up in small towns where everyone already knew of each other in some way or another, so it wasn't hard to socialize. No need to come up with a formal introduction for the bartender's wife, Debby, when she babysat you as a kid, or to come up with conversation starters for a first date when you're given pretty much all the info you need from her best friend, your bandmate, which gives you plenty of ingredients to keep the conversation going. Now, though, I find myself dealing with extreme social anxiety. When I go out, I do talk to people, but I can't fully hear what they're saying because of the inner me screaming about how uncomfortable and nauseous he is. This keeps me from making any actual friendship progress.

Another thing keeping me from making friends - I have a genetic disorder that affects my appearance and keeps me from being able to stay very long in the sun. I definitely think this is partially why I am drawn to vampiric tales, media, and characters. Though it's also because I enjoy Gothic literature.

You might wonder what happened to all of my original family and friends. Both of my parents have passed, the rest of my family is also mostly gone aside from the a few horrible people, and all of my friends have either passed away or moved even further away than I did, so we grew apart. I am no stranger to death, to the point that I'm desensitized to it, which bothers me. But that's a topic for my therapist!

I do have a living twin sister. She's wonderful to talk to but lives very far from me. It's also hard to match our schedules, but we video call every now and then.

All of this is just to explain a bit why I am the way I am, not to insist that anyone stopping by my page needs to reach out to me or be my friend.

On a lighter note, here are some of my interests:

🦇Reading (fantasy, gothic lit)

🦇Gaming (survival, horror, cozy)







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But just that would get lonely, right?

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