Eye contact while walking or driving together?

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TD that post about you and your colleague down the corridor is totally hilarious! A scientific description of how ridiculous it is for us. It's what happens to me - it becomes an Engineering project to strike a balance between 3 things: intelligent conversation, walking straight ahead and doing the occasional eye contact.

Yes, going where you are looking isn't always the right way.


Thanks.....I think I might have had enough brain space to get all 3 right this time, if I hadn't also been distracted by the feeling of surprise, that I should get a real-life example of the very thing being discussed on this thread.

I have that when walking and especially when I'm in the front seat of a car talking to the driver. I had an eye contact problem when I was younger but my mum and teachers nipped that in the bud quite early but recently I realized that I'm extremely uncomfortable when I'm sitting beside someone in the front seat and having to turn to them and talk for some reason. It might be the proximity of our faces, I don't know. Luckily, since I just noticed this I've tried to nip this in the bud as well.

If people don't like some aspect of being a passenger in my car they are perfectly welcome to find somebody else's car to ride in :p I'm not even averse to outright telling people to be quiet if their incessant talking distracts me too much from the task at hand :p

Edit: I never did properly figure out eye contact anyway and I've learned to not feel uncomfortable about it so if they don't like it it's their problem, lol.

One of the greatest songs ever. Jim Morrison taught me three things:

1) Mainstream society hates and fears those who are different.
2) Use alcohol in moderation.
3) The future's uncertain and the end is always near.



As for eye contact while driving, I don't do it. If I'm the passenger and the driver is making eye contact with anything other than the road I flip out. One of the things I can't stand.

Last edited by Rascal77s on 08 Aug 2012, 6:02 pm, edited 1 time in total.

When I walk my eyes are almost fixed downward. I just find it to awkward to try to make eye contact with people while I walk. And if my gaze happens to meet someone else's, I never know what to do or how to react, or if it means anything at all. I've noticed that NTs will occasionally look over at the person they are talking to while driving, but I don't think people get offended if you keep your eyes on the road.