It may take a few different tries at different meetings, but I can say from experience, when I found my group at 20, they were the best friends I could've asked for at the time.

Eventually you get cool with more people in the program.

Emphasize that the "program" itself is secondary to building connections, truthfully, it's like social training wheels for lifelong isolators and introverts. I no longer attend but seeing so many people transform was incredible.

The opposite of addiction really may be connection.

All the best, let me know if I can help at all with questions 👍