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I didn't start being successful in controlling my reactions until my early 20s.
What the hell was I thinking. I'm better than before but I still choke in front of women. Even if they are only reasonably good looking, the moment they start showing interest.......
Actually, I've been making quite a bit of progress these last few months. I've been reading this book,
Emotional Intelligence, like a textbook. I've particularly concentrated on chapters 2 and 4-8. It covers stuff like being aware of your own emotions, regulating them, knowing how to channel them for work, empathy, and social skills.
Since autistics have a tendency to be alexithymic (spelling could be wrong, it means naming and, therefore, being aware of our emotions) this book could be useful.
AND BY EMOTIONS I MEAN IT IN A SCIENTIFIC SENSE!! !! !! Don't go thinking I'm turning soft here or something. They are real things that affect everything about us. We ignore them at our peril not only for relationships, but for work and many other things. Flow, for example, is an emotion (or something) we enter when we are performing at our best.
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If there's such a thing as god, he's a sick bastard.