Hey Bill
Congrats on the 5 months
Do you resent your "social issues"? Do you beat yourself up in your head over it? If the answer is yes, that's where you need to look first. As long as this feeling of resistance/resentment is in the background, then all the socializing in the world won't give you peace. That's not where you find peace. If you can find a way to accept yourself and stop caring so much, then the socializing will likely happen naturally and from a deeper place, but you won't need it to happen anymore because you're OK either way. That's the beauty of it.