Does anyone else have daily difficulties with basic human interaction? My girlfriend is the only person with whom I don’t find myself intentionally monitoring my behaviour, trying to force my thoughts to stay linear and stop my mind wandering off on tangents. This behaviour completely pays off, and I come across as involved, calm and a pleasure to talk to. Hopefully these regulated behaviours will become as automatic with everyone else as they are with the missus. Until then, I fear I will continue avoiding too many conversations and brief encounters, an obviously disabling attribute which serves only to lengthen the time it will take to achieve autonomous casual interactions.
