hi!
been reading all of the posts now… very interesting. (and it didn't sound like you were boring.)

I think about myself I'm very boring to other people. I did have a very sheltered childhood. (my parents were neither rich nor poor.) and that also makes me feel very boring. like I have heard a lot from friends telling me I don't know anything about life and I cannot talk about things I know nothing about.

a good childhood doesn't guarantee at all you'll be an interesting person.
If I look at things that I've tried in my life it doesn't seem so boring. but I'm a boring person to be with and I don't think anything I can tell would change that.
people don't enjoy listening to me. everything I thought was an exciting story or a shared interest starts to sound totally boring and turns into a plain annoyance when I start talking about it. so I try to shut up and listen to the other people instead. (which is sometimes very boring to me) I've heard a lot that this was something to do to become more liked. but what happens is that people don't even notice I'm there.

even if I have a shared interest with someone the moment we start talking it turns out the other person knows a lot more and I cannot even respond to what he tells because I haven't done enough research.
I feel many things could be interesting to me but I don't have the capacity to study all there is about a certain subject. I cannot keep reading such a long time or watch so many movies because too much input overwhelms me and I need some time to reflect.

generally too much input overwhelms me and that's why it's not fun being with me. That is something that will never change. I'll always need a long coffee break and sit down in a calm place even when being on holiday in the most exciting place in the world. I'll always be slow and need a lot of time to take all the information in. no way I could turn into an extrovert entertaining charming person!

that makes me feel very uneducated although I don't think I am.
I actually think I am quite intelligent (yeah I shouldn't say that about myself) and I like to discuss. especially difficult abstract ideas. a discussion can be like a game, not serious but entertaining.
but nobody likes that! !!!

not even people claiming to be so intellectual. there are many that like the image of being an intellectual person and spend time in coffee places to discuss philosophy. but they don't do it. they just say they were doing that.
they just throw some book titles at me they've read and show me that I don't know anything instead of having a discussion.

I guess I do also have some very specific interests that probably nobody shares and i chose to not talk about. for example I think I have a very strange taste in some things so I should not tell anyone if I ever want to be a part of society.

so secretly I think I am not so boring. but I am like a sleeping pill for everyone who meets me.

Anything I could do? (seek people with same interest doesn't seem to be working)