Lindsayrrr,
In addition to the article slay linked to if you're not giving people eye contact it would probably help to do so. Also make sure you smile or give the right facial expressions when they're called for or body language. I've practiced on my family, friends, and with people I've never met and it can make a big difference very quickly. For example you might meet a girl and start doing this and hardly have to contribute to the conversation. I just happened to talk to someone yesterday for the first time in my class and we were laughing and going on which never happened for me before usually. With someone I've been seeing it made her open up to me more and she said I seemed more confident and had grown (the truth is I haven't done that much except maybe what you see on the outside like better clothes etc). I met an actor in a show on Netflix and he said he would have invited me to join his social circle but it was a private get together (Chase talks about being invited or not invited to parties in that article). Unfortunately that's my next hurdle but I've gotten pretty good results but I haven't talked to nearly enough people. Also I have to get over the fact that I can't hear nearly as well as I used to. So it's harder approaching people for me but I feel like pretty soon if I work at it my social life is gonna change drastically. I don't know what will happen but my goal right now is to talk to a few hundred people. It took less than that for me to see what I've seen already. Good luck using these things.
~Yhaceed
