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' ( Read more... )

I have a brain that is always on. Its focus, however, is rarely useful. It is hungry for analysis but poorly trained, and will greedily assess the first thing it comes across, indiscriminately, often itself ( Read more... )