I'm a dude though, the circumstances aren't the same, lol.

But I have, actually, many times. Especially in uni and highschool, I'd be the one to approach the quiet kid cause I just wasn't comfortable with them feeling excluded. I made a really good friend in uni that way, a quiet, very clever and responsible ginger dude (in a country of brown people, he was basically a mythological being, lol) I ended up spending many of my afternoons with, just yapping and toking our late teens away. 🙏