I've got a bit of a problem. I went into the hospital in roughly 7th grade due to illness, and since then I've been home schooled and haven't had many social interactions with people in general. I ultimately had to undergo surgery, and now am in perfect condition, and my parents decided to send me back to school. I am now a Senior in high school with an entirely new body (It's been years since I went to school, and I've gone through seemingly my entire puberty stage). I went back to school as a Junior. I've managed to make some friends and have joined a little group at school, but my problem is girls- I don't know what to do about them. I can clearly tell a lot of them think I'm attractive or cute or whatever, but I can't seem to work any courage up to talk to them. I don't even know what to do or say. I always feel bad when I see a girl in my class on the other side of the room looking directly at me or a girl in the hallways ignoring her friends for a second to look at me or worse- passing by them in the hallway when we're both alone and she clearly is looking at me- and I can't say anything to them. I've tried looking on the internet for ways to help me, but all of them basically just tell me to work on my self confidence- but the problem is I feel I have plenty. While I'm not one to brag about how ridiculously sexy I am, I think I look really good.

Another thing; I am 17 years old, and if I do manage to get a girlfriend, I don't know what I'd do, either. I don't have a car- yet. I still have a couple more months to go before I can test for my license, and it feels like I'd be expected to have one.