Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : So, I’m pretty socially awkward and I have a really hard time reading social situations, just thought id preface this with that.

I’m a freshman in college and I’ve been trying to reach out and meet new people, make friends and whatnot. About a month ago my school had this involvement fair where all the clubs could go and recruit, and I saw that there was quidditch table. It looked really cool, I’m a huge fan of Harry Potter and I’ve been looking for ways to be more active and the people at the table seemed really cool, so I signed up.

The first meeting was like a week later at the soccer fields, and when I got there I was one of only three people there. I went and sat down on one of the bleachers and got ready to introduce myself but the other two seemed to be kinda locked in what looked like a serious convo so I didn’t. When more people started to come, the two people stood up and started to run the meeting, so they were the organizers. After a while we started doing stretches and a few exercises, and afterwards there was like a ten minute break.

At this point pretty much everyone seemed to either already know one another or they just hit it off right away, so I started to kinda freak out bc I hadn’t talked to a single person the entire time. There was this group of like five or six people standing around talking, and I kinda walked over and stood in the same general area. They were talking about Skyrim and a few other games, and I thought this was my chance to get in on the conversation so I said, “Skyrim is like my favorite game” or something like that. And they all went like SILENT and just stared at me. I don’t know if I committed some kind of social faux pas or what but they seemed really offended that I interrupted their convo. 

Naturally I just kinda awkwardly apologized and went about the rest of the practice as normal. From that point on I still tried to get in on conversation but the same thing would happen every time. Even in the group chat, everyone would just kinda ignore my messages. Eventually I just stopped coming to meetings bc, what was the point? I need to know though AITA for trying to jump in on that conversation?