Is it normal that i can't relate to people my age?

I'm a 19 year old male college student who has no close friends, has never been kissed, and has never had sex. For about six months, I suffered from severe depression because of this, but I suddenly got better the moment I realized that thinking negatively about myself wouldn't help me accomplish anything.

Since then, I've been headed in a good direction. I try to work out at least a couple of times a week and I spend hours every day working toward my dream of becoming a director. It may sound like a crazy pipe dream to you, but I've already written several feature-length screenplays and I'm about to start work on a short film starring professional actors, so I'm definitely serious about this.

Now this part might sound like bragging, so let me qualify it by saying that I've been told each of these things by multiple people multiple times, including attractive women: I'm very intelligent, I have a great sense of humor, and I'm at least somewhat handsome. For a while, I thought people said stuff like this to me because they were just trying to be nice, but now I'm starting to believe it. I still try to be modest, though.

Despite all this, I'm alone a lot of the time. I have trouble relating to people my own age. Most of my classmates are into drinking, partying, and studying while I could care less about all of the above. Generally, I get along a lot better with people who are at least 5-10 years older than me, especially if they're ambitious, mature, and creative.

As you can imagine, this creates a bad situation for me as I'm constantly surrounded by people my own age or only a few years older. The few friends I've made in college have all been upperclassmen or grad students. I just don't know how to talk to people who are constantly looking at their phones or who already have a tight group of friends they made at the beginning of the year.

As far as dating is concerned, I know exactly what it takes to get a girlfriend and I'm quite sure that I'll get one eventually. My rational side is telling me to wait until I'm older and have more options, but as much as I hate to admit it, I crave sex just as much as everyone else.

The problem is, I don't find very many girls my age attractive. They all seem so immature, like they just got out of middle school. Most of the women I find attractive are in the 25 to 35 age range, which obviously adds many layers of difficulty since I'm only 19. Again, when I'm older, this won't be a problem, but something tells me most older women would think of me as a teenager and refuse to date me.

To summarize, I would like help figuring out how to meet people that are either older than me or my age and unusually mature. I know I might've come off pretentious or arrogant in writing, but I am anything but a snob. I just try to be as honest as possible in how I describe myself and the people around me. Throughout the first few months of the school year, I made a great deal of effort to reach out and connect to people my age, but it never worked out - I'm just too different. I'm not giving up, though - I always try to see the best in people, even people I dislike or who dislike me. All responses will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

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  • reporter6

    What are you studying? Usually girls in applied sciences or art majors are not as you describe, but I do agree most 19 yr olds, both males and females, are not so interesting (in fact, ages 15-24 seems like a bit of a dead zone)

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  • NathanScot

    I am a lawyer and even I think this are too many words.

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