Is it normal to not interact with the opposite gender?

I feel repulsive to women, like they look at me either scared, disgusted, or uninterested. A few times this year, I complimented some girls. I try my very best to be respectful. Its not that they aren't interested in me. Its that I don't have much opportunity to interact with them. There's also not much shared interest. I thought being more social with other guys would give me more confident, but I think it made interested in guys more, yeah alot of them are handsome, and some are cute. But where on earth do I find women where I'm at?!

When we suffer from low self-esteem or feel depressed about ourselves, our minds will often read disgust and rejection into other people's reactions to us, even if it isn't really there. We become very bad at reading people accurately, because we imagine they are seeing us through the lens of our own eyes.

Hard to know how to meet women where you're at. We'd need a few more specifics about where you're at. Of course, it might be the case that you're bisexual, or gay. Sexuality isn't always an easy thing to figure out, and attraction can change over time.

Unless you are extremely obese, have some really bad physical/mental deficiency or are unkempt, most people won't find you repulsive.

Besides work, which I limit my interaction to the extreme, I don't engage with the opposite gender. In all honesty, I'm too intimidated by guys and always assume that they're talking to me because they need something.