>>307723I just got my powers a few months ago. I've never had any friends of any kind, although I can't say I ever had any expectation that the friends were going to magically appear later.
I've been withdrawn as long as I can remember. In first grade I used to sit on the steps by myself at recess and daydream instead of playing with the other kids.
Never had a job either. I spent the years since high school alternating between NEETing and very slowly completing university classes.
I don't think anyone is born this way though, except maybe true autistics. I think withdrawal is almost always a failure of the adults in the early stages of life. Every little kid I've ever seen is naturally very outgoing and has almost no inhibition. Shyness and timidity are major red flags something has gone wrong.
If a parent or teacher or older guardian figure catches it quickly (and isn't the active source of the problem, which many parents are) you can pick the kid back up and push them back out into the world, but if you ignore it for any length of time it snowballs. They get too far behind their peers and too entrenched in bad emotional reflexes, and at that point they're permanently defective humans.