Have you ever told someone you analyzed a social behavior?

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Have you ever told someone that you analyzed a particular social behavior and developed rules for understanding it? How did it turn out?

For example, long before I became aware that I was so awkwardly different from the rest of the world, I felt the need to analyze hugs. I wanted to understand what emotions people attached to particular hugs, so that I could be more aware and react accordingly. I believe I remember that there were 7 types, and it helped me greatly to understand the context of relationships I had with people around me. For a very long time, I used this list to consciously and deliberately gauge my standing with others. However, as with most other rules I have created, the list has now become a part of my subconscious reactions and I no longer think about it, I just naturally make the associations.

When I finally began to realize that I saw the world differently, I tried to explain this to someone because I thought it would help them better understand me. Instead of bridging the gap, it only served to confuse them more and come to believe that I was totally socially awkward. This was the day I learned that it might not be in my best interest to explain my differences to others.

Some of my closest friends now know about it, as I have shared it with them for amusement purposes (for some reason my strange musings make them laugh, which is ok with me). Every once in a while, after they hug me, they will verbally define the hug and giggle, which tells me that no matter how much they love and accept me, some things are a little outside their realm of true acceptance and understanding.

When I was 7 - 10 in that range I was fixated on peoples lips. Instead of eye contact for some reason I tried to figure out things by focusing on peoples lips. Now I can understand evolutionary psychology and essential psycho-pathology. For the most part people are boring (predictable) and no longer complicated. Human behavior has always been an interest of mine and I've read all the Freud books and many of Carl Jung's books.

Here is a list of my most fixated relevant interest in the past:

1. Religion, spirituality and supernatural from a purely analytical and hard-core rationalistic point of view.

a. Psychicism - how others are trained and made to believe thoughts are the supernatural.
b. Shared delusion - the group structure of belief and the mechanisms of shared manifestations entailing the core functionalism and as well as dynamic psychopathology beyond that of common belief.
c. Cultology - not church but rather the super ego and new age culture for instance.

2. Psychosis - I am absolutely fascinated with the nature of delusion and the complexes thereof. However seeing things that are not there is not the limit to this study. Delusional complexes for instance of other groups, people and ways of thinking.

3. Otherwise.

a. Why do people believe in aliens from other planets and when belief becomes fact how do the mechanisms of delusion manifest creating false fact. Why do people believe in one non-absolute and then add-on additional beliefs to further entertain, protect the initial delusion and or have fantasy beyond the initial singular static belief.

b. Can have anything to do with social and general human behavior. For instance even autism advocacy and the construct of autism identity and self-advocacy politics.

c. cultural manifestions and changes of the past with key interest in racial injustice. I adore the study of civil rights and the frameworks of perceptions and even the hidden unknowns. What is racism, how does racism effect the human condition and even when no racism is intended adversity for some still is present in context. The causal manifestions of the racial histology and the day to day life of the interaction between differing people of skin colors present day. Obama's campaign was awesome yet intellectually remarkable.

d. National Security from a purely social psychological perspective. It's amazing how risk can be found in many ways. Such as in trustability, shared delusions and if's. One example would be should everyone, many or just enough believe autism came from vaccines could terrorist effect the population with the spreading of harmful diseases?

e. Why are people so fixated on things like why is their butt to big and why do you think you have to be skinny. Seems to have much to do with reproduction and also general health.

On a day to day basis psychology is my driven thought and fascinates me. People are not as complicated to me as they once were. Lately people seem kind of the same to me especially from a purely generalized view-point. There are commonalities and then the experience of the individual. Structuralism of the human mind I'd really like to formally have the frameworks of. I'd like to figure out how people manipulate one another on purpose.

Hugs seems to be a simple human bond perhaps when words cannot do enough. Sad people hug, happy people hug each other and yet strangers do not often hug. Hugs are not very interesting and I do not often hug or really like hugs in general. Some people seem to like hugs a whole lot. It can be an impulsive behavior. The need for it however seems to be learned least from my perspective. I have done it a few times at least. Some people really seem to be into the hugging.