>>5
I have the exact problem, except that I'm a girl and I'm in a university course where my social awkwardness sticks out like a sore thumb. Whenever I engage with someone (that I've just met) in a conversation, it never flows. It's always stagnated one-liners followed by long pauses. Normally I just smile and laugh to convey my friendly intentions, but that act is boring and gets old. I want to be able to engage a random person in conversation and arouse interest and get past the initial civility. I can talk to guys, but that took me a while to get over. And even now I struggle to have a meaningful conversation with one.

Is it normal to go home and think about a conversation that you had earlier in the day? Or to review/reflect on almost every situation right after it happened, thinking "I should've said this or that"?