(Last week, we left our intrepid heroes dangling from the edge of a cliff at the end of a rapidly fraying rope: How will they get out of this one??)
Other comments: - I went through my teenage years in my early 20s. I sometimes catch myself learning social stuff now that most people go throug hat 13. You're not the only one to have gone through the lack-of-socialisation thing.
- I know what you mean with the infatuation/rejection cycle. I have a tendency to do that myself. I have a way to get around it (coincidentally I've been talking with a friend recently about it and he pointed out that it's a really bad way to be dealing with it...) which I am finding isn't quite so important these days. It's also a different situation so probably wouldn't work in your situation. (ie: I find guys are a bit easier to interpret than girls. Yes, I know that's a generalisation.)
- To give you an example: I spent a large part of my highschool years being ignored by guys. This got to the extent that I spent about a year secretly convinced that I must be gay or something and everyone else could see this but I couldn't and hence no one was interested in me. Oh, the gaping holes in that argument... (I guess the fact that I could appreciate females as potentially attractive even though I hadn't met one of the small minority I am "interested" in didn't help, but nonetheless!)
...please excuse the occasional silly comment and do not interpret it as me trivialising your thoughts/opinions - I find lightening humour to be helpful to getting the underlying point acroos :) And I hope I have made you smile at least once!
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Date: 2008-03-18 02:16 pm (UTC)Other comments:
- I went through my teenage years in my early 20s. I sometimes catch myself learning social stuff now that most people go throug hat 13. You're not the only one to have gone through the lack-of-socialisation thing.
- I know what you mean with the infatuation/rejection cycle. I have a tendency to do that myself. I have a way to get around it (coincidentally I've been talking with a friend recently about it and he pointed out that it's a really bad way to be dealing with it...) which I am finding isn't quite so important these days. It's also a different situation so probably wouldn't work in your situation. (ie: I find guys are a bit easier to interpret than girls. Yes, I know that's a generalisation.)
- To give you an example: I spent a large part of my highschool years being ignored by guys. This got to the extent that I spent about a year secretly convinced that I must be gay or something and everyone else could see this but I couldn't and hence no one was interested in me. Oh, the gaping holes in that argument... (I guess the fact that I could appreciate females as potentially attractive even though I hadn't met one of the small minority I am "interested" in didn't help, but nonetheless!)
...please excuse the occasional silly comment and do not interpret it as me trivialising your thoughts/opinions - I find lightening humour to be helpful to getting the underlying point acroos :) And I hope I have made you smile at least once!