I don't think there's too many more introverts in these areas than there exists overall. To be successful, you have to be an extrovert or pretend to be one anyway. Maybe I'm somewhere in between the two as I like being on my own a lot, but I also like being the center of attention or being onstage/in front of a camera when I'm around other people.

Anyway, back to your post…I'm afraid I don't really know what his interests are outside our discipline since I haven't had the opportunity to get to know him well enough. I'm also not very comfortable around other most of my other peers…I guess I just feel immature, unqualified, and unexperienced in comparison. And this doesn't necessarily have to do with not knowing my capabilities, because I do. But having career-related skills doesn't help me have confidence in relating to others. I've never been in a relationship and haven't even had many friendships. Even my relationships with family members are either non-existent or distant and cold. So based off all of that, I must not have any relationship skills, or at least I've never had a chance to develop any. So what in the world would I bring to a relationship anyway? I've been turned down enough just because of my lack of experience and because my career will likely need me to move after grad school…so apparently I'm not dateable because I'll have to move to find a job? Even when I find a job somewhere, I don't know if I'll be there my entire life. Isn't this true for anyone? How can anyone date then if the fact that they may move in a few years or a decade etc. makes them undateable? I don't see how it's even a legitimate excuse. I wish people would tell me the real reason I'm undateable…it can't just be because I lack relationship/sexual experience and I'm not going to live in this city for the rest of my life.