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Aella
@Aella_Girl
In most normal social situations I feel like an alien trying to pass as human, like the people I'm talking to are really far away, or like we're reading lines off an uninteresting script. Is this because I'm abnormal, or because I'm not trying hard enough? I really can't tell.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Finding a wide variety of other people beautiful/fascinating/deep is a mindset that is really romantic and we praise people with that mindset. I really want to have that romantic mindset but I have no idea how to engage like that past specific, small subcultures.
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HotOilpuddle
@oilpuddle
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@Aella_Girl
I'm in Los Angeles and I feel that socially people are very guarded, especially in environments with intellectuals and artists. My impression is that people are so hyper aware of criticism that they take on an outward detachment an attitude of non commitment.
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Dr. Poop Muscles, PhD
@Space_Boy_Ben
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@Aella_Girl
Most people aren't terribly fascinating nor are they poignantly beautiful; especially not at first and many aren't ever as they are often too engrossed in super self centered, shallow, and/ or petty things for any deeper maturity to likely ever have room to flourish inside them.
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Siri Dhyan Singh
@siridhyan
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@Aella_Girl
There is commonality in the human experience. Ask folks questions, based on what they say, relate to your experience of what they say as it impacts your mind, body, & spirit. Barring that put yourself in their shoes and try to navigate it hypothetically (but with sensitivity).
Emerson Ward
@emersonsays
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@Aella_Girl
While I’m generally optimistic & philanthropic (like, in the sense of opposite to misanthropic) I tend to find that the most interesting people I know don’t typically extend that same romanticism for all, and I’m inclined to agree, esp concerning ‘depth’ w/e that actually means.