[quote=spdrun]By the accounts I read, he didn’t even try to socialize, but was rather actively anti-social. I wonder if the rejection was all in his head, and if he didn’t ever even try to get a date.[/quote]

in his mind, he was trying, but his effortsinvolved extremely ineffective attemptsbasically just walking around and smiling at girls. h e tried to pump himself up, try to beleive that at least being outside and being near women would icnrease the odds of something happening. but it was hopeless ina real sense, because he rarely actaully talked to anyone. however, he was doing about as much as he could.