Sound wrote:
That's how I was when I was 18. No buts about it - I was creepy to the max, and I usually didn't know it. However, I am not anymore because I did not give up.
Something to bare in mind.
Perhaps it will take years to 'catch up' to others, feel secure in your capacity to connect, and yeah, that's kinda a long time... But it does eventually happen. Just keep at it, and be willing to find and address where you're going wrong.
Yeah, that's the point, you have to get smart instead of just instinctive, which is basically our lot in life when it comes to other people/social situations. That takes time and you can feel like giving up. On everything. Now, you know that's no way to go out, right? RIGHT?
You have as much right to a good life as anyone else, but if you have to work at it then that's the price you have to pay.
Make your own luck, too.
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That 'emulator' concept of processing social data is a new one to me, but makes perfect sense.
"No man can hold what the darkness can sow" - Agents Of Oblivion - Hangman's Daughter.