What's the scoop on why eye contact is hard? Just curious.

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My first impulse in threads like this was that it doesn't apply to me. Then it did, sort-of, but it was so far behind me that it wasn't important.

I'm re-thinking, and now I have more questions than answers on this one. Someone obviously told me at some tender age that eye-contact was important, but I don't specifically remember it.

Now I'm getting bits and pieces of vague memories of a phase when I forced myself to do it excessively, as though I had made a campaign out of de-sensitizing myself. It was a conscious choice, from within. It was around third or fourth grade.

Let me know if this line of thought is useful, and whether I should dig deeper.

The answer is simple, why do something that can not be understood... If he understood how the eyes are important he would do so, but all that can be see are two eyeballs, and no emotion, so I would NOT encourage him to do so.
Ask a toddler to drive a non automatic car for you and they would not understand the concept. They would look at the controls rather than the windscreen.