Do you like or dislike eyecontact?

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Exactly! Eye-contact is dangerous, it precedes something awful, get away fast! I practiced being invisible - not in reality, but by being so inconspicuous as to unnoticed. It works, too. Wear something gray, stand in front of a cement building, and don't move a muscle. Maybe I should call it extreme blending.

I like that. So to travel you'd need pictures of a place ahead of time so you'd know what palette they use on the buildings and match your travel wardrobe to that

I don't like contact. I have to force myself to do it and when I do it, I can only do it for a second or two before I become really uncomfortable. Even the whole concept of eye contact is the proper way to communicate drives me batty. Since when? Who said? Pfft...

Architects don't use palettes. Cities are mostly gray. Anyplace snowbound is mostly white. Deserts are variations on tan. California is mostly skin-tone.

Same as OP, I'm neutral towards it. But I didn't learn how to keep proper eye contact until I was around 17.

I often don't like looking people in the eye because I can often see the pain of a person's life there. I think people are often embarrassed of the way I can look into them and see what they really are, and not the mask they want people to see.

i agree Aurore i mainly look my family and my gfs family as i feel comfortable looking them in the eyes but other people i get really shy and i struggle a lot its been my weakness since i was 4, ah well we try our best but eye contact i dont like its very hard. its just very hard on its own to make new freinds in the real wide world but its easy to make freinds that have a disability like Aspergers and Autism like im on here to make new freinds on WP and share the same thing in common we all have a disability

I don't like eye contact and find it very difficult to maintain, the more a person seems to be staring at me, the worse it is I just constantly want to look anywhere but in their eyes, but it feels a bit like they're demanding I look into their eyes with mine, and I don't really see why I have to stare into someones eye to speak with them, I know there's supposed to be body-language there somehow, but to me they're just eyes.

Umm....

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All the above.

I often wonder what the person I'm looking through/around/away from is reading into that.

Hey - just figured this quote thing out - lol!

I'm kind of the same way, but it's kind of mood dependent too. I was in a job interview today and I tried to make eye contact with all three interviewers. I did pretty well and felt pretty good about it, but largely because I felt pretty confident about the situation and myself. A lot of times it's just that I don't make eye contact if I don't remind myself to. Intense stares bother me though. Especially if it lasts more than a second or two, it creeps me out - even if it's someone I care about, which seems kind of strange.

That's like me. I had a fairly informal job interview. It was on couches in a lounge room setting, lol. Anyway, I was relaxed and quite confident that I'd get the job. Eye contact wasn't a problem. I didn't have to hold it because the room was full of photographs and old cameras so I would always look around me without it looking weird.
I have found when I'm nervous that eye contact would be bad. I remember I tried to meet a singer. And my damn friend and drummer pretty much pulled me into the room he was at, then when he looked at me it was that feeling that he was disgusted with me, though he was probably to stoned to have any such thoughts like that.

I don't like making eye contact. It feels ... scary. It's hard to describe why. Like they can see into my inner soul.

I am able to do it now (although did not much at all a few years ago), but I cannot hold it for long without really consciously trying.

But if I'm upset, forget it. Can't maintain eye contact at all. And just want to be left alone.

I don't like making eye contact with people other than people who are really close to me.
Usualy just give quick glances to every body else. I find it creepy to even glance at some peoples eyes. Never thought it mattered too much. Almost afraid to start forcing my self to try, might really come across strange.

If you don't let me look deep into your eyes I won't talk to you. Simple as.

Hate it. Learned to fake it when it interfered with pursuing the career of my choice. End of story.

~Kate