I have pretty strange and strongly wired in abnormalities in how and when I communicate with other people and I don't know how to quickly convey to them that no the reason for me behaving this way is because my brain is weird, it's not because of you at all.
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I often end up having semi awkward conversations where I have to quickly explain "no I'm just like this. No that's not an excuse to hide a more normal reason, I actually do this to everybody."
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Some things: I can't have one on one conversations unless there's an explicit goal, and no you can't just make one up. There's 50% chance I'll respond to your msg, even if it's great and I like you.
Also I need to figure out why we're talking, explicitly and out loud, right now.
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People don't act as though this is normal. For example, people still often ask me to talk with them without defining an explicit goal!
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You mean making small talk? A lot of people are terrible at small talk. Specially introverts.
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Often not even small talk. Like maybe it's someone who's cool who I recently met and they wanna get to know each other better, like try to make friends, but my dumb ass is just like "why would we do that, it's boring"
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Ok, so you're more reluctant to expand the conversation to a personal level. A lot of people are like that. The difference is that they deal with it differently. Some try to indulge the best they can other while other merely give short dismissive answers.
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