Poll: Are you anti-social?
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I think I'm actually better with strangers and worse with my family. And I'm bad when it comes to strangers and having my family around while talking to cette stranger. That annoys me. Also when someone asks you a question and everyone stops to listen to your answer. That's also when I'm anti-social. Gauraunteed it's an embarassing question too.
I've been told by many people, many times that I am anti-social. I am not good at meeting new people. I tend not to say much around people I don't know. I do however, have a legendary gift of small talk. Most of the time I'm to nervous to start a conversation though. Unless, I know of them, or we were introduced or somthing, that is different. I am however, really shy around someone I have a crush on though. Its like I forget the entire English language when I am around them.
"Yes, I talk to my friends but I'm nervous around strangers"
That's putting it mildly. I dread social engagements and meeting new people. Quitting my job and going back to college was extremely hard for me to do for that reason, and I'm still not entirely sure I made the right decision.
That's putting it mildly. I dread social engagements and meeting new people. Quitting my job and going back to college was extremely hard for me to do for that reason, and I'm still not entirely sure I made the right decision.
I make friends pretty quick and can get along with people.
That said, large groups make me twitchy and nervous, I don't know why.
That said, large groups make me twitchy and nervous, I don't know why.
i'm not shy or anti-social! okay, i take that back, i'm shy around adults i dont know. like if my parents try to induce me to one of their friends i'll normally just say hi. but if you put me in a room with a bunch of people, i'll be the one starting all the conversations and talking to anyone that will talk to me.
I'm basically the same although I do have a few real life friends.popdafoo said:
Most of them though are adults at least 5-10 years older than me.
I still have a hard time initiating a conversation. I won't talk to someone unless they talk to me first
I'm more shy but I do own quite an anti-social streak mainly because I take great and often violent dislikes to people and I never know when I will
Voting for satisfied misanthropy. For whenever there's any time to think about the incoming social interaction and/or ways to avoid it I will surely do my darndest to avoid it. (After all THEY are all conspiring against me and are so vile, disgusting and nasty and... Wait, why'd I register on these forums? Did I hit my head? Some flaky mind control conspiracy delusion coming true? Not sure if truth out there.)
Weirdly enough when push comes to shove, I'm actually mostly okay in social situations despite any and all neuroses. "Sarcasm and a nervous smile to thinly veil my disgust have so far pulled me through." is what I'd like to say, but I think it's really just that I'm too much of a goody-two-shoes nice guy type to actually hate most individual people in any meaningful way. So... Uh, yeah.
Big groups are still terrifying though despite offering some anonymity, sarcasm is good (or am I just trying to be clever?) and society in general frequently leaves me in despair. That and the fact that, most if not all non-geeks, i.e. the majority ofthe world's population, seem completely alien to me but I'm sure that's mutual.
I'll be all like: "Hockey, football, are those some kind of fashionable hat? Oh wait, I think there's games about those. Wait a sec let me google it." And they'll be like: "Jesus, what a dweeb. Let's go do cool people stuff. OO-RAH!"
All good reasons to do some humorous ranting among like-minded friends on the upside.
Weirdly enough when push comes to shove, I'm actually mostly okay in social situations despite any and all neuroses. "Sarcasm and a nervous smile to thinly veil my disgust have so far pulled me through." is what I'd like to say, but I think it's really just that I'm too much of a goody-two-shoes nice guy type to actually hate most individual people in any meaningful way. So... Uh, yeah.
Big groups are still terrifying though despite offering some anonymity, sarcasm is good (or am I just trying to be clever?) and society in general frequently leaves me in despair. That and the fact that, most if not all non-geeks, i.e. the majority ofthe world's population, seem completely alien to me but I'm sure that's mutual.
I'll be all like: "Hockey, football, are those some kind of fashionable hat? Oh wait, I think there's games about those. Wait a sec let me google it." And they'll be like: "Jesus, what a dweeb. Let's go do cool people stuff. OO-RAH!"
All good reasons to do some humorous ranting among like-minded friends on the upside.
I'm definitely not, which is why I feel so shit about not having any friends. I like spending time with fun people, especially fellow nerds. Gaming is the best when you have some folks in a room playing against each other and having a laugh. I'm saddened I cannot actually do that.
The world is a place sadly were you need to know people to survive. At work you deal with people, at school, in public. its inevitable that you deal with people at some point.