How can I meet people?

I am a loner and I have started to become desperate to interact socially- I am 17 and really lonely- I have bad social skills, low self-esteem, so I really don't know how to just "open up" to people and talk, you have to understand that IT IS NOT AS EASY FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME AS IT IS FOR NORMAL FOLK.


I would like, if you had any idea, advice on how to perhaps meet other people like me, whether through interaction on the internet or whatever, really, just so long as I have social contact THIS IS BECOMING UNBEARABLE FOR ME.





Please no answers stating for me to go and meet and talk to people at my school, join a "club", etc.- THIS WILL NOT WORK, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT SCHOOL I ATTEND AND THERE ARE NOTHING BUT ASSHOLES THERE, and it is not even up to me to join a club, I have a mean parent who won't let me do anything at all.

How can I meet people?
Ask your mean parent if he/she would mind if you could get a part time job so you can save money to be able to go to school, or for whatever purpose is good for you. Then do it. When you talk to people, look them in the eyes. Ask them how they are doing. Ask how if they have kids, if so then you can ask how the kids are doing... See, they idea is to not be so introverted and if you talk to other people it then you will feel more normal. And just for the record, normal is overrated. It is better to be different than normal.
Reply:If you go to College, things change, it's not like high school for the most part. You usually meet people at work too. Also, volunteering is a good place. I was the same way and still kinda am. Just be yourself and love who you are. A good book for self-esteem is 'The Power of Positive Thinking' by Norman Vincent Peale. And once you get a girlfriend, things will change for sure.
Reply:eehhh okay my parents r liek rlly mean too ...sumtimes itstough r u a senior?? junior?? y do u think ur an outsider?????? do u think ur physically fit????? do you have friends??? to liek hangout ?????whats ur clothing style????? r u a guy/girl???


it rlly depends on who u r...im in highschool too and younger than u and everythigns cool....there r alot of different cliques


u can meet ppl at myspace or facebook or sumthing