When people are friendly but insanely distant...

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What does this mean?

Do you trust those people?

I can never get my around of what they are thinking of me, but I can always make assumptions yet rarely or never know if they are actually accurate...

From what I've known, a lot of distant people really did turn out to be mean to me at the end of the day and that's like A LOT OF PEOPLE.

So I'm wondering, since I notice that my parents complain about distant people a lot too, like they say they feel like those people are hiding something or are keeping themselves disconnected from you...

I always seem to think of those people as types who would actually snap out like maniacs towards you whenever you say something to them that is even only slightly hurtful.

I think 9 out of 10 people in my neighbourhood tend to be like that, I also notice that they usually come over as fake and forced and avoid to use too many words.

What do you think?

People friendly but distant can be... just people friendly but distant. Many people are not looking for friends or similar, but they're polite and kind. How could it be a negative thing?

I am one of those people. If you met me IRL you would think I was a stuck-up b!tch because I won't talk to you other than nodding and saying hi. I am afraid of people in general.

I tend to be one of the friendly yet distant people, though I am just distant till I talk to someone enough to become friendly. But yeah its hard for me to connect with people, even those I like. Doesn't mean I am going to go get an assualt rifle and shoot someone if they say something a little hurtful...I might take it a little to personally and get more upset than someone else might but that's about it.

I think one problem is many people share the attitude that if someone is distant they are either a ticking time bomb or not to be trusted.

I usually assume these people are friendly because they feel socially obligated to be "nice" especially to someone they've just met. And distant because they don't want to be my friend (for reasons that may or may not have anything to do with me). Which is OK because I wasn't trying to be their friend, I was also just trying to avoid confrontation.

Many people are not comfortable with close friendship. They do not want to share their innermost thoughts, they feel that being vulnerable makes them lose authority or power. Usually such people are not above skewing the truth or playing annoying pranks, and they value appearing cool over being right.

I imagine that's what most people's impression of me also. I am also considered reserved and officious, but kind. I'm okay with others like me too. I'm easily overwhelmed by those that seem phony because their maybe distant really, but try to compensate with a "big personality".

I'm a strange person. I learned friendly and distant but what I really want to be is extremely candid and bare my soul. I am such a weirdo that friendly and distant is my defence mechanism and it's not fair to subject everyone to my full, unadulterated self. However, I can rarely do it because I'm often depressed or generally feeling bad - so even talking to people at all is difficult. So normally, I'm just distant and a bit sympathetic to those other suffering beings that I see floating through life.

If you mean fake nice people, who are obviously sniggering inside, then I am never, ever like that.

To the people on this board who think I'm actually talking about them:

Do you realise that the people I'm actually on about in this thread are not those who are distant to everyone except their closest family and friends, but those who are to just a select amount of people like say 1 out of 10 or even 1 out of 20?

That's a whole difference in behavioral terms and mindset and it's not like you can say these people lack social skills or have problems connecting with others themselves, since most of them are pretty active on facebook with like 500 friends and are all in a relationship.

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