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After talking to you daily for more than a week, I didn’t feel in you an ardent desire to socialise.
At this point I believe anxiety and lack of confidence are not the only obstacles which prevent you from finding friends.You are not expressing a deep desire to connect with an other human being.
Have been engaged in a long thread with mainly one other poster on another forum. He's on a crusade to improve my small talk /social skills.
250 + posts in he comes out with that statement. I thought I had done quite well engaging with him.
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It’s true I’m quite happy with my own company a lot of the time. Certainly adolescent bullying has made for quite severe social anxiety and I am naturally an introvert/rather shy. You can also add to the mix ASD traits.
Another thing is the unwritten rules of social interaction are like a foreign language to me and I’m not good at initiating spoken conversation/making spoken small talk.
02 Aug 2017, 12:48 pm
