Reply #25: Sounds familiar. [View All]

[cosmicaug]

ringmastery wrote:

Pretty much I go under the assumption that people don't want to be bothered so I shut up and leave them alone cause that's basically what I want done to me most of the time (read I'm an introvert and like a lot of alone time.)

That sounds like me. I have the feeling that I'm intruding whenever I might have the impulse or need to interact with someone else which results in me minimizing or avoiding the intended interaction which means I'll eventually run into trouble. Of course, not all of this feeling of potential intrusion is irrational as social interaction is a complex game and not all of us are wired to play it properly and thus, I could sometimes, in effect, truly be intruding (as a result of misreading non-verbal cues and that sort of thing).