Do you take interest in fellow humans?

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Do you sincerely ask questions to learn about other people? do you think about other people and consider them a lot, even if it doesnt show?

i think i do. i tend to perhaps come off as a bit selfish to some people because i use "i" a lot, or something, but id rather think of it as introspective. i like learning about other people and people as a whole. it depends on the person of course, obviously some club-hopping slut isnt going to be interesting. it seems very few people do actually take interest. . but those who do are very fun to be around...just makes conversation more interesting and stuff.

Hi Spazzergasm! Is that your real name? Are you from Istanbul, Turkey or from Istanbul, Wisconsin? What do you have against club-hopping sluts? What's your sign? Do you think astrology is dumb? Do you have any pets? Would you believe me if I told you that I have heard of Reccip-Tayyip Erdogan? (Because I have! but enough about me, besides, you could be from Wisconsin anyways....). You look beautiful in that picture, how long have you had glasses? How many languages do you speak? You seem very interesting.

Sometimes I don't ask questions to learn about other people, other times I do .

haha, interesting reply.

no, it's not my real name. XD. and I'm from Turkey. There's a Istanbul in Wisconsin? :S. i was merely trying to think of a shallow character stereotype. Cancer. interesting, but untrue. i have a snake, and a lizard. AHH!! Erdogan! . thank you. since i was 13. i speak english and some turkish.

was i supposed to answer those? XD you seem like a very interested-in-other-people person!

Sort of. But that's why I read a lot of fiction books. Characters in novels tend to be more interesting anyway. They can do a lot of things, experience a lot of things, and are a lot of things I'm not AND you don't have to converse with them.

I do not take interest in most humans.

I would say that I am interested in other people, but more so as an anthropologist then an active participant. I find things like economics, politics, psychology, neurology, and all sorts of human related things very interesting. And of course I like discussing these things with other people and hearing their views.

However I really dont like spending time with other people as in going to a party and making small talk. So, i guess it depends on what exactly you mean by taking interest in humans.

small talk is useless for taking interest in other humans.
i would consider a deep discussion with a friend about their life or something an interest in people.

Hi. Welcome to WP. I tend not to be interested in most people I encounter in real life.
On the other hand, I have found many people I encounter through mass media to be fascinating. Many artists, scientists, musicians, writers and some people I discover through the news. I think the reason for the difference is that those I meet in real life may be as interesting as the others I mentioned, but I wouldn't know that without spending a lot of time in deep conversations with them. One reason I love the internet is that having deep conversations is more likely to happen than talking to someone in real life. Like a lot of people on WP I find conversations in real life problematic. Not impossible, but hard to go beyond the superficial. (I am undiagnosed, probably very mild AS currently.)

As far as taking an interest in my family, I feel bad that I do not keep in touch as much as I should. I tend to spend too much time pursuing my special interests instead.

Rarely, and usually as subjects for analysis.

I like to be "in the know" I guess. I don't like being the only one not knowing something (which happens a lot because I don't pay attention when people talk about their lives).
However, I can't say that most people's lives interest me. I care about my family and I should show more interest in them, but if their lives don't impact mine I don't put in a lot of effort. As with some of the others, I do have interest in historical people who lead more eventful lives.

LOL I'll try to remember that one.

To try to answer your question, I find life in general, and interacting with other humans in particular, to be quite draining, so I try to minimize my contact with the other humans. Also, I do not want to bother other people, and if I ask someone questions about his/herself, s/he may ask me a lot of questions about myself, which would bother me.

I take interest in the interesting, the unique, the intelligent, the creative. If they can't carry an intelligent conversation with me without me repeating every statement 10 times, or them looking like a deer in a headlights all the while pretending to understand, well I want nothing to do with them.

A typical human is trained to do their job and not much else, have no interests other than what the popular culture feeds them with, reads no books (Dan Brown doesn't f*****g count), watches The Big Three sports and reality TV, know nothing of culture or history or philosophy, etc etc.... I want nothing to do with them.

@ Spazzergasm-

(Completely off topic) I have a theory about your signature. Are you a vegetarian? Is it just Dada type humor? If not, do you mind if I ask what it means?

I'm not interested in other people or what they're doing. And I realize that most of the time when I do speak to someone it's from a very self centered point of view. I don't mean to be self centered it's just how everything comes out. I don't often think to ask people how they feel or what they think.

I do extensively.

"fellow" humans? you've got to be kidding. they've never treated me like one of them in my life.

so, no.