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 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: Why is it hard for us to make eye contact?

meta4
 Post subject: got that right
Posted: 22 Feb 2007, 12:58 pm 

Replies: 38
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Because a certian majority like to burn our eyeballs with direct eye contact. Parent-teacher conferences are the worst. My kids are good, smart kids, no problems in school at all. So the conferences are completely non-controversial. But some teachers insist on doing eye contact on some sort of "bio...

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: Why is it hard for us to make eye contact?

meta4
 Post subject: exceptions to the rule
Posted: 22 Feb 2007, 12:54 pm 

Replies: 38
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Generally I don't make eye contact. But here's something strange: I'm white/hispanic. My wife is asian. When talking to people I don't really know (e.g. drugstore clerk, etc), I find that if I am talking to an asian female, I don't have TOO much trouble making eye contact. Other races, however, are ...

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: dealing with the humans

meta4
 Post subject: intriguing!
Posted: 22 Feb 2007, 12:45 pm 

Replies: 4
Views: 903
Absolutely! when I finally learned to stop taking it personally and making a point of observing, memorizing and imitating "them"... is when I finally began to learn social skillz! Of course, I was in my mid-twenties... but hey, better late than never! Funny, I never really thought about that approa...

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: I realized just how much of an outcast I am

meta4
 Post subject: sounds familiar
Posted: 21 Feb 2007, 8:27 pm 

Replies: 20
Views: 3,376
Yes, I think this is something I call being "collectively ditched by humanity." The thing to remember is that they AREN'T all of humanity, and there are people you can relate to. They're just somewhere else. Another thing to consider is, while it is natural to envy people who can connect socially as...

 Forum: Love and Dating   Topic: any suggestions to get a girlfriend?

meta4
Posted: 21 Feb 2007, 8:07 pm 

Replies: 12
Views: 1,938
This may or may not be useful in finding someone you can connect with. But some may find it worth a try... 1) Study a foreign language well enough to communicate well. This may take a couple of years of effort, perhaps less if you have a propensity for foreign languages. 2) Find a place where you ar...
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