you could only count on people to stick around for so long when you didn’t give them much to work with, and she simply didn’t have much to give; she felt like she’d been deprived of some critical lessons in socialization right out of the gate, and trying to make friends, when you’d skipped those lessons, was like learning a new language relying solely on a handful of reticent subjects, in this case subjects who’d already decided you were never going to be fluent.
