Do you think the way NTs socialize is beautiful?

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14 Mar 2013, 8:23 pm

This might sound a little bit silly but I truely believe this: when I watch and listen to NT's socialize, I almost think it's beautiful -how they approach people they know or don't know to strike a conversation, the way their conversations flow from one topic to another, and how this is all done with such grace. Especially listening to older women talk. It's almost like listening to pretty jazz or classical music. Do you think that too?


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14 Mar 2013, 8:42 pm

Yes, yes, yes. For me, watching this is like a person with two left feet watching the Russian Ballet.



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14 Mar 2013, 9:24 pm

sometimes.



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14 Mar 2013, 9:42 pm

Especially in Charleston SC, a seat of southern charm.



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14 Mar 2013, 9:45 pm

It certainly makes me inferior to them. It makes me depressed just watching them while I stand on the sidelines not knowing what to say.



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15 Mar 2013, 12:06 am

i never looked at it that way. it always just made me want to escape. i did find that listening to someone with a Tibetan accent speak was like listening to beautiful music.


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15 Mar 2013, 12:22 am

infilove wrote:
This might sound a little bit silly but I truely believe this: when I watch and listen to NT's socialize, I almost think it's beautiful -how they approach people they know or don't know to strike a conversation, the way their conversations flow from one topic to another, and how this is all done with such grace. Especially listening to older women talk. It's almost like listening to pretty jazz or classical music. Do you think that too?



No, because if I thought that I'd feel worse than i do just for not being good at socializing period even to get things I want. To think that not only am I missing out on a tool, that tool is some kind of really beautiful thing that everyone else's lives are colored with while mine is grey is unbareable.

it's a lot easier to think that socializing is some perverted, sensless tradition enslaving billions of weak minds.



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15 Mar 2013, 12:26 am

Sad story. Many people have pointed out to me that every social interaction involves some sort of rhythm. Most of the time, I sense that my own rhythm is somewhat "off", but the more I try to fix it, the more mistakes I tend to make. Haha, I suppose that most NTs have a "good sense of rhythm" during social interactions. (Coincidentally or not, when music is concerned, my sense of rhythm is nearly non-existent.)



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15 Mar 2013, 12:47 am

To me it's kind of strange. Not in a bad way, just something that is foreign to me.



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15 Mar 2013, 7:14 am

infilove wrote:
This might sound a little bit silly but I truely believe this: when I watch and listen to NT's socialize, I almost think it's beautiful -how they approach people they know or don't know to strike a conversation, the way their conversations flow from one topic to another, and how this is all done with such grace. Especially listening to older women talk. It's almost like listening to pretty jazz or classical music. Do you think that too?


Yes, I used to admire it. And actually, now I can socialize with NT's perfectly fine.

But now it doesn't seem like anything exotic or beautiful. It just seems like typical day to day stuff.



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15 Mar 2013, 9:23 am

Oh yes, I do admire it. I do admire it. I'm sometimes too afraid to join the conversation out of fear of derailing it.



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15 Mar 2013, 10:05 am

For some NTs, yes. Not all NTs are socially graceful...in fact, I know many that are socially awkward...including my own parents.

For those who make friends easily and don't have any insecurity or weird parts of their brain/thinking they have to deal with, I absolutely envy them. My boyfriend's family are the perfect examples of who I'd like to be: they seem to just "know" things that I don't know, always know just know what to say at the right time, are very witty, always seem to be connected with others, and socialize with ease instead of hesitancy.

I want to be able to talk about things and make people feel comfortable so easily without wondering if I am being too weird or too unrelatable.


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15 Mar 2013, 3:49 pm

Sometimes,yeah.


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15 Mar 2013, 8:37 pm

MountainLaurel wrote:
Especially in Charleston SC, a seat of southern charm.


Oh how ironic for you to say that....i actually live in Charleston SC!


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15 Mar 2013, 8:41 pm

alakazaam wrote:
It certainly makes me inferior to them. It makes me depressed just watching them while I stand on the sidelines not knowing what to say.
that's how i feel sometimes. i find what that happens my fealings will overreact and giving my self a little time out is the best thing in the world to do.


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15 Mar 2013, 9:11 pm

Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

No.