Spent years just like you (same as now without anyone). Used to be hella ugly and unkempt. For personal reasons (mostly developping obsessive behaviors in that regard) I started taking great (I guess pathological) care in my appearance. After a few months I got a lot of female attention (despite my lack of interpersonal skills and lack of attempts at communicating with the opposite sex).

I also notice that my inability to read social cues did not help with that : sometimes women would apparently strongly come on to me but I would only be able to notice it after the fact with outside help.

It litteraly took girls doing things like kissing me, or sending me a text like "do you want to date?" to make me understand. And it was the ones who were patient (apparently sent weeks sending me signals, like physical contact, inviting me to stuff...), and decided to take a step instead of giving up on me.

Girls would do things like ask me to explain stuff (like in school). The same girl would ask me to explain the same thing to her time and time again. Apparently I was supposed to understand it was because she wanted to spend time with me. Understood it as her being stupid. Only could understand the situation with the intervention of a friend of the girl who explained things to me very clearly.

So I would tell you not to give up, but at the same time maybe look for obvious stuff that would send men running away from you?

Of course not leaving the home can be an issue (to me things like public transportation or shcool helped, like you'd see the same people every day, so sometimes after a few weeks some girl I'd see often would come speak to me).

Once you've got someone, it's more of a hassle to break up than staying (because then you need to explain to the few people in your life why you're not together, and so on).