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I've never been with anyone in my life. I highly doubt it has to do with not going to a dumb party though.
You might consider what's driving you to put people down who are having fun
I don't put anyone down just because I think a party is lame dude. They can do whatever they want, I can't stop them.
When you call an event where kids get together to celebrate the end of high school "frivolous" and "dumb," it really comes across as putting other people down.
I don't really mean literally to practice asking people out. But there are times in your life where you need to ask people for things. It is hard to get over the anxiety, risk of social embarrassment and practice showing confidence (even if you are not). These are valuable skills in all sort of social circumstances.
I asked sometime to the prom and got turned down. All I learned was that rejection hurts a lot more than I would have thought.
Yeah, being rejected can destroy someone's confidence