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BeaArthur
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30 Jul 2018, 10:36 pm

I have a hard time making a reply when I don't know what to say. Some posts are vague and I think a little bit symbolic, which is not how I think. I reply a lot to forums, so it's not that I'm lazy or shy.

I don't really know much about you cberg, makes it hard for me. I'm not a doctor but I do like the part of the Hippocratic oath that says, "First do no harm." In other words, if I don't know what to say, I try to err on the side of saying nothing at all.


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30 Jul 2018, 11:11 pm

My OP is more about real life stuff although it applies to me here sometimes. Most of this is probably because only a few people know much of anything about me. I'm a pretty serious geek, as it were.


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02 Aug 2018, 11:07 am

RichardJ wrote:
cberg wrote:
I suppose that's kind of beside the point for me. I'm out of town for a week & 2 or 3 friends asked when I get back but I can't stop thinking I just shouldn't contact anyone else unless they ask for me by name.

Making myself available went nowhere so the only other option seems like the total opposite. The default option is just to disappear until I'm no longer irrelevant.


Sounds like you have a fear of bothering people, sadly I have the same. You just have to remember that in reality you aren't. This is more difficult than it sounds, though.


Hmm, perhaps even when I freak someone out that only means we're in a similar state of mind. 8O


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