I don't have that many friends: one best friend I see several times a year, three or four close online friends, and my boyfriend.

I'm a university student who commutes from home rather than lives on campus, so normally, with the exception of my family and my boyfriend, I can go an entire day without talking to people, since most have made their own friend groups.

I'm friendly and will talk to anyone if they talk to me first, whether they're in my classes or they're strangers, but I'm also incredibly shy and don't tend to initiate conversations, so I can be isolated. I tend to just feel awkward and fumbly around people unless I know them very well, and I got bullied pretty badly in high school so I'm very self-conscious of how I come across, how I look, have troubles with making eye contact, etc.

I wouldn't say that I'm lonely, personally. I sometimes feel wrong, as though I ought to have a big group of people and opening up and all that, but I can generally ignore it if I don't think about it. I'm a pretty happy person, otherwise.