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07 Nov 2011, 8:01 am

Depends on the person, some people I want to look in the eyes and some I don't. Sometimes when I look into peoples eyes I see nothing but sometimes I see too much.



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07 Nov 2011, 11:38 am

Trainbuff wrote:
Because I stare people too intensely in the eye, so I'd rather not make eye contact.


I do too, but I have yet to stop doing this. At first, I thought it made me seem like I was listening to them, but now I know it can be creepy, but I just can't stop for the most part. Any tips?



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07 Nov 2011, 11:42 am

sMeow wrote:
It's painful. It's like, ehm... if you try to look at a lamplight or something like that. It make me weep.

And I don't like to watch people. Their expressions are too... too... I don't know. I think there are too much expressions when I look to their faces, it makes me crazy. I can't endure when people are laughing while talking to me and while I'm looking at them, etc...

sMeow.


I have the opposite problem of staring...but it makes me really good at recognizing facial expressions, even if I do look creepy while doing it. :P But, I'm working on it.



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07 Nov 2011, 11:46 am

btbnnyr wrote:
Eye contact is not painful for me. I can make and hold eye contact for as long as I want. I just have to remember to do it, and when that happens, I am an intense starer. When I forget to remember to do it, I am also a starer, except that I stare at a plane of focus way before or behind the face of the other. That is my soulless droid stare.


Exactly! :)