[GameMaster]

My experience is kind of opposite but I share some similar feelings. I graduated high school last year and now I'm starting college at a community/junior college. It's in a different city about 20 minutes away so I'm living at home, which is what I wanted, like Jason mentioned in another thread, I didn't have that common desire to leave home and set out on my home. I'm fine where I'm at right now. But since starting the new school I've enjoyed it because I don't know anyone here. All my friends are at different places. So I'm just on my own at school, I go to class then I leave and I don't have that obligation to socialize with anyone. My feelings might change later but right now I like it, between you guys and talking with hometown friends online, that's good enough for me. And I don't really think it's a social disorder, there's nothing wrong with wanting to be independent or alone sometimes. It's just your disposition. And in the new age of online communication, psychologists are recognizing it as an additonal form of socializing, not a disfunctional form like your parents or some old person might think. Anyways Germ, unless you don't like feeling this way, I wouldn't worry about, I'd just go along with your natural feeling and live it. But if you don't like the way you feel and you wish you could be like, 'the other guys', you might try just kind of forcing yourself to get involved in the scene. But if it's less a feeling of preference and more a feeling of true discomfort, you might have social anxiety or depression, which as you probably already know can be treated. Depression doesn't just mean you feel down in the dumps, it can be other things like not wanting to do anything or not wanting to be around others. As long as I've known you though, I think for you it's probably just a part of your disposition. Give us a weekly update regarding if your feelings change or stay the same.