I piss people off. Rub em the wrong way.

I think I'm being normal but it's wrong. Or I'm reading them wrong.

I usually end up afraid to talk to them at all.

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fun4us2b · M

If you are rubbing them the wrong way - maybe you can play back the conversations and see if you can find a pattern...

For years, I had to train myself to take a pause before I spoke so I could process the situation better and be more measured in what I said.

Being self-observant takes work and practice....

ScreamingFox · 41-45, F

@fun4us2b I think I grew tired of being calculated. It was so much work to be someone I really wasn't. And liked only when I exhausted myself to be likable.

I think there's genuinely something wrong with me socially

fun4us2b · M

@ScreamingFox But in doing this you wouldn't be trying to be someone else - you would be working toward getting your words out the way you mean them...

Being aware of it is huge...many are not.