/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9296885
Cheer up, there's hope. I'm older than you and I'm a dude, but I go to cons and still make friends when I cosplay. (I got a baby face). Just be trustworthy and invest in people. Carry confidence in who you are and treat everyone with honor & respect. Sure I get some age shaming when some new friends discover my age, but almost all of the time they come to consider me a solid friend after awhile.

I have a lot of guy and gal friends that are younger than me, anime junkies and lolitas- No one judges me as a creeper because I intentionally try to help everyone have a good time, and I don't have any ulterior motives (except maybe to form a huge friend amoeba around me). If you're genuine, people will pick up on that.

I'll go to a con, see someone alone sitting off to themselves looking kind of sad or whatever so I'll bring a friend over to them and complement them on something awesome about their cosplay. I'll strike up a conversation about their favorite anime, and try to draw them into a game of Ninja Slap or something. Sometimes that's all that's needed to help a person relax and start to add to the fun. It might help if you have a couple younger friends to go with you to start with, but just show people that you care about them. It makes my heart happy to see people around me having a good time, so I feed into that and bring that vibe with me.