• devfuuu@lemmy.world
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    There’s something deeply disturbing that people keep insisting on but I don’t understand: apparently we should be looking ppl in the eyes or something like that.

  • Sailor Anarres@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I heard you’re suppose to say extremely wrong facts confidently, and be a yes man suck up to whoever you are talking to. I think that’s the current trend in the art of mimicking human behavior.

  • verdare@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    ~STEAL THEIR SKIN STEAL THEIR SKIN STEAL THEIR SKIN STEAL THEIR SKIN STEAL THEIR SKIN STEAL THEIR SKIN STEAL THEIR SKIN STEAL TH—~

  • decolo@piefed.social
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    Smile. Show your teeth. Make eye contact. DO NOT break eye contact. Listen actively. Listen to what they’re saying until they stop talking. Generate and vocalize a question or comment relevant to the conversational topic at hand. Repeat until they retreat in confusion/annoyance/terror.

    Congratulations. You have won at Socializing.

  • eighty@aussie.zone
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    unable to understand social interactions and people on a fundamental level choose a bachelor degree in literally the study of human mind - Psychology realise there is nothing fundamental about people, we are all subject to an innumerable amount of factors, and social interactions and psychology are culture-based and ultimately arbitrary

    All because westernised NTs demanded I have the perfect amount of eye-contact while we spoke about the weather

  • applebusch (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    excellent question! the best answer i can give you is give up. normal human behavior is impossible to mimic. hope this helps! best of luck out there fellow meatbag!

  • OryxAndCake@slrpnk.net
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    The irony of finally finding ‘my people’ at the point in my life where I have no ability or desire left in me to even attempt social interaction beyond non-sequiturs and memes.

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      I hear you. I’m right there with ya. I’m so beyond burned out. It SUCKS. I’m so sorry. 🫂

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        I thought I had a meme for this but apparantly not. I appreciate the solidarity though and the meme would have depicted that. Here is a pretty moth instead.