Poll: Is it rude to tell people "please don't talk to me"?

[Remus]

This is what I say when I reeeeeally would like to be left alone, and I'm on my way to lock myself away from other people to make further communication impossible. Is it rude? Possibly, but it surely beats "I want to strangle you with your own vocal cords. Seen that chick on Hellraiser, the weezy one? Yea that's how I see you right now." So in relative to that, simply saying "Don't talk to me" is far less likely to get me arrested.

You can't say that you don't care, except when people say things to you that you don't like. Obviously you do care, a lot, you just don't have any better tools to deal with the situation and have totally given up.

He just did say I don't care and I agree with him. Here's an example of why. I avoid romantic relationships. I don't have the skill or energy to deal with the overly complicated mind games that accompany them and am not willing to learn. snip

That's really sad, and it sounds like the kind of total lack of social skills or underlying problems that people have been talking about in this whole thread. It's too bad that your way of coping with it involves deciding that everyone else is broken.

Living in the midwest, I can assure you, the women I've met either are completely broken, full on bible nuts who don't like it when kids watch Harry Potter, or both, a reformed broken person. In any case, these people have more problems than I care to deal with so abstaining from social interactions is often the better choice.

 

[Flames66]

I certainly don't, unless I have specifically asked.

Im going here from the assumption that the person HAS asked and the askee so to speak has to decide if they should be honest or whatever.

They can be honest or not, the choice is theirs. I asked and will accept the result. If they want to tell me their problems, I wouldn't have asked if I didn't intend to listen.

That's really sad, and it sounds like the kind of total lack of social skills or underlying problems that people have been talking about in this whole thread. It's too bad that your way of coping with it involves deciding that everyone else is broken.

I don't recall ever saying everyone else was broken, or blaming anyone else for my problems. I have reasonably good social skills in most daily situations, I just choose not to use them when I don't want to deal with people.

Living in the midwest, I can assure you, the women I've met either are completely broken, full on bible nuts who don't like it when kids watch Harry Potter, or both, a reformed broken person. In any case, these people have more problems than I care to deal with so abstaining from social interactions is often the better choice.

That's part of the reason the thing I mentioned didn't work out, I was not the only person with issues in that relationship.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I think it's okay after a few attempts to converse with you if they haven't picked up on your obvious disdain. Saying it straight away is quite rude, I usually politely engage in small talk then busy myself so they don't continue the conversation. If someone's really annoying me I will say it and not care. I'm not there to make others happy.

It's quite interesting to add that I've told quite a few men on dating sites to leave me alone (I blocked them and they kept making new accounts) and boy, the death threats I used to get...