Honestly, I completely get how he's feeling, the anxiety that you might say or do something and instantly they don't like you or that they'd be happier talking to someone else than talking with you... I even do that with my own family. When you feel like nobody thinks of you in a decent way, you think that even the people who have been around you for years will dislike you wih just the tiniest mistake ever, when they already understand and accept how you are. You just end up spreading your own legos and stepping on them, and then wonder who put them there.