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I have a strong avoidance to hanging out with people one on one, difficulty responding to messages and emails (to the point I've hired an email assistant to keep my life from crashing). Lots of people think I don't like them because I appear to be ignoring them. I wish there were

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a concrete term I could use to give people so they understand "it's not you, it's me" instead of me having to awkwardly explain my weird brain problem every time

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Misha Gurevich, Photographer, VC, Wives 0/1

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To what extent should they expect different things from you than if you actually didn't like them much?

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If I like you usually I'll have low level interaction online, like respond to one of your messages once a month or something. I typically don't respond at all to people I actually don't like, and sometimes mute or block.

7:32 PM · Feb 29, 2020