Addendum (possibly contradictory)

[calypsomatic]

People like me (the ones that do that is) because I am afraid. Afraid and incompetent. I'm not so skilled at social interaction that it doesn't take effort. Adhering to social niceties, attending as assiduously to the fact of others' selfhood as I do to my own, is effortful and difficult. I often don't know how, or simply don't enjoy it because it'

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[calypsomatic]

I wrote this some time ago but never posted it, and thought it was an interesting follow-up to the previous post, because they are on similar topics but seem to describe opposite behavior. My theory is that this one is about my behavior in groups, around people I may not be very familiar with; the previous one is about my one-on-one behavior with closer friends.