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jcq126
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15 Jan 2014, 11:42 am

I despise making eye contact. The few times I've tried to HOLD eye contact "normally" I felt like I was letting that person see all my deepest and darkest secrets and that they could read my soul. I felt like I had no privacy and like I was naked and felt violated.



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16 Jan 2014, 12:09 pm

I can make full eye contact with my sister, (more or less my brother, not really), or my former girlfriend.

I can make partial eye contact with my autistic friends, but even less with my neurotypical friends.

I can't make eye contact otherwise. I can't even do it if you tell me to do it.


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