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  • Different people will approach those social situations differently. Work, play, drinking, hanging out, flirting … everyone has their own ideas of what they enjoy or find inappropriate or don’t know how to engage with in various settings. The same individual is often wildly inconsistent across different settings.

    Personal adaptability and the willingness to apologise or double-down according to what the other party expects are the only ways to avoid getting one’s feelings hurt and/or hurting others across a broad-range of experiences and individuals.

    Of course, social isolation and intentionally keeping a small circle and/or routines are also valid options.


  • I downvoted at-first, but I just explained this to my son yesterday. Over 90% of us are sheep, and over half of that are just sheep who are concerned primarilly with the social-status and evident power/autority of anyone who tries to give them directions, no matter how correct or absurdly-wrong the directions. They actively despise the notion of thinking for themselves.

    EDIT: To be clear, I myself prefer to take direction if the situation is complex-enough. I infinitely-moreso prefer to follow directions I can ascertain/understand on-my-own to be correct - but its not the whole 90% that disgusts me, and I try-not-to dolize those who are too head-strong to follow directions.