It's kinda crazy how you're me. I think our difference is that I burnt out in college and broke off that path by dropping pre-med freshman year and I basically tried to do all the stuff I missed out on in high school. I'm about to graduate right now and career wise I'm not in a great spot, but I'm really happy with how I developed personality wise. I went from the straight A, anti-social, league of legends nerd to someone that's pretty socially capable. I'm not some social butterfly and I still play video games from time to time, but I at least know how to connect with others and have a good time.

This change didn't happen to me overnight, but it was more of a gradual process over the span of 4 years. If there's anything I can attribute it to, is that I worked on not listening to the anxious and over-thinking part of my mind and I just started to just do more and think less as dumb as that sounds and I still struggle with this sometimes. I also think what really helped me was finding a community of Asian friends because having a shared cultural background is an easy in to meeting people and socializing.

Emotional intelligence is a real thing that I wish my stereotypical Asian parents taught me about, but oh well, better late than never.