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How did you guys learn your social skills?
The limited ones I have, were learned from formulas, limited social interaction, and observations. I realized long ago that I never learned how to behave well at all except by being silent and solitary. It's really hard to learn from other people's reactions to me, because I don't really understand them at all. I know I'm being perceived as rude and selfish, but whenever I try to bring this up with the people I know well(my parents, because there is no one else) they don't really get very explicit with the things I need to know. That always ends up as a provocative experience, because it lets me know how they believe I simply choose to be rude. I can't very well tell them this, because they don't like having me open up emotionally by telling they upset me. They'd just complain about how I think I'm the only one allowed to be upset, and how I get upset over the littlest things.
The limited ones I have, were learned from formulas, limited social interaction, and observations. I realized long ago that I never learned how to behave well at all except by being silent and solitary. It's really hard to learn from other people's reactions to me, because I don't really understand them at all. I know I'm being perceived as rude and selfish, but whenever I try to bring this up with the people I know well(my parents, because there is no one else) they don't really get very explicit with the things I need to know. That always ends up as a provocative experience, because it lets me know how they believe I simply choose to be rude. I can't very well tell them this, because they don't like having me open up emotionally by telling they upset me. They'd just complain about how I think I'm the only one allowed to be upset, and how I get upset over the littlest things.