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 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: Should I just stop "making" friends?

i_o_e
Posted: 23 Oct 2010, 8:22 am 

Replies: 10
Views: 1,720
I don't really have any to begin with but it seems the ones I make, I anger one way or the other. They get angry at me and never tell what I did wrong. What am I suppose to do? I try to look at it from their perspective but can't. I know I'm not the best when it comes to empathy or being the first ...

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: They say you should make eye contact...

i_o_e
Posted: 23 Oct 2010, 6:01 am 

Replies: 5
Views: 1,667
gramirez wrote:
...but when I do, they say "Stop staring at me". I guess I'm confused.


Don't bother trying to understand humans, just try your best to maintain a kind of distant compassion, allowing yourself to pity them sometimes, as a treat.

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Eye contact question

i_o_e
Posted: 23 Oct 2010, 5:52 am 

Replies: 60
Views: 15,154
my natural instinct is only to look people in the eye when i want them to back down. it's an agressive behaviour on my part, ... think of it as staring at an angry lion. not wise. scary. weird also :P oo, yes, this! Eye contact is extremely intense, for me, and I have used it successfully when requ...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Eye contact question

i_o_e
Posted: 23 Oct 2010, 5:46 am 

Replies: 60
Views: 15,154
It's nearly impossible for me to listen to what someone is saying when I look them in the eye. If I'm talking, it's easy for me to lose track of my words when I'm looking someone in the eye. Either case is pure panic. I can only communicate effectively with people by not looking at their face. Same...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Do you function the best when people leave you alone?

i_o_e
Posted: 22 Oct 2010, 6:21 pm 

Replies: 18
Views: 2,355
It sounds like our pasts are quite different, but yes I can basically only work alone on things. I never went to classes at school or lectures at uni, but still got top grades. In fact lessons and teachers only held me back. My mind goes blank when someone is pressuring me, especially with maths or ...

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: Thinking most your friends/acquaintances don't like you?

i_o_e
Posted: 22 Oct 2010, 5:26 pm 

Replies: 4
Views: 1,779
Absolutely. I really, really hate to bother people or to get in the way, so this belief (which I consider to be entirely justified) sees me often distance myself from people or groups who I think don't like me. I have on several occasions had my suspicions confirmed directly when someone was good en...
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