Social skills you have gotten better at
Sarcasm and not flying into a rage when someone has a different opinion. (Because generally that's reserved for egotistical people and I aspire to not be one.)
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I struggle with that one.
And with coming off as insensitive without intending to.
And with rage.
I didn't get sarcasm when I was young but I do now. I'm better at using it than catching it though.
I'm usually pretty able to manage participating in a multi-person conversation.
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I struggle with that one.
And with coming off as insensitive without intending to.
And with rage.
I didn't get sarcasm when I was young but I do now. I'm better at using it than catching it though.
I'm usually pretty able to manage participating in a multi-person conversation.
If someone mentions one of my interests I still info dump without even noticing until afterwards. I don't start conversations with info dumps anymore, though.
I also am very bad at getting sarcasm irl, but I for some reason process it well online? I feel like it should work the opposite way...
funeralxempire
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Joined: 27 Oct 2014
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Location: Right over your left shoulder
I struggle with that one.
And with coming off as insensitive without intending to.
And with rage.
I didn't get sarcasm when I was young but I do now. I'm better at using it than catching it though.
I'm usually pretty able to manage participating in a multi-person conversation.
If someone mentions one of my interests I still info dump without even noticing until afterwards. I don't start conversations with info dumps anymore, though.
I also am very bad at getting sarcasm irl, but I for some reason process it well online? I feel like it should work the opposite way...
I'm the same and I agree. There's more cues verbally and yet I get it better in text.
I find it comforting when I notice another person who likes to info dump because it signals we communicate in a similar way.
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Watching liberals try to solve societal problems without a systemic critique/class consciousness is like watching someone in the dark try to flip on the light switch, but they keep turning on the garbage disposal instead.
戦争ではなく戦争と戦う
I struggle with that one.
And with coming off as insensitive without intending to.
And with rage.
I didn't get sarcasm when I was young but I do now. I'm better at using it than catching it though.
I'm usually pretty able to manage participating in a multi-person conversation.
If someone mentions one of my interests I still info dump without even noticing until afterwards. I don't start conversations with info dumps anymore, though.
I also am very bad at getting sarcasm irl, but I for some reason process it well online? I feel like it should work the opposite way...
I'm the same and I agree. There's more cues verbally and yet I get it better in text.
I find it comforting when I notice another person who likes to info dump because it signals we communicate in a similar way.
I noticed that a lot of the people I've ended up friends with also like to info dump. I genuinely like listening to other people do that because I always learn new things, and I like sharing a lot of info about things. It works out. lol
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I don't talk about special interests any more to others (well, I don't have any special interests any more but if I did I'd know not to).
I don't feel so socially anxious in groups.
I love attending social gatherings, although it's something I've been unable to do in the past year thanks to the pandemic. I used to avoid social gatherings.
I seem more confident in making eye contact with strangers (eye contact has always been natural for me but I went through a phase of consciously avoiding eye contact when passing strangers in the street as I found it awkward).
I have learnt quite well not to complain about things all the time like I used to. As a child I was unable to "hear myself" whining and wondered why people would keep saying "stop moaning!" As an adult I know how to filter out my emotions when appropriate but I get alarmed when I do get told to stop moaning, but at least it doesn't get said to me as often as it would have done 15-20+ years ago.
I've gotten better at standing up for myself at work if I get blamed for something I didn't do, and in a more mature way.
I don't mask so much these days, I just be myself and this had made me realise that I don't need to mask much to get along with other people anyway.
I've got much better at sympathising.
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