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@nando161 one of the contrite ironies for me personally is that left to own devices, desires and abilities, the regular constant socialization of school simply because I had to be there, actually worked out as mollifier to the whole experience.

And personally, it has always been harder since I left school to make friends outside of contrived circumstance of being stuck in a room with people not entirely like me. Its much harder for me to self select for likes and similars ahead of time and then actually connect with those that share in those affinities. I love gaming, I dont like gamers as one base example of the predicament.

I fell in love with a coworker and we got married, as example of how far I can go with contrived social engagements.

I do think there is something to throwing people into a room and letting them figure out how to be with one another, rather than self selecting with lofty idealism and hope of connecting with similars and likes only for it to be hard and potentially a shit show.

Neither here nor there to the overall of school being a disempowering indoctrination factory but I do think about the dynamic given the adulthood laments about friendship building and how I do fancy a life of just talking to all sortsa folks as life itself.