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My predictably unpopular theory is that highly social people are really afraid of other people. Perhaps not without reason if one regards other humans as potent
by erasemus 9y ago
My predictably unpopular theory is that highly social people are really afraid of other people. Perhaps not without reason if one regards other humans as potential predators. So they designate a group of people friends and use it as protection against all the other people.
Yet they remain afraid, and this fear is what makes social interactions addictive (like gambling; the great the fear the greater the high on the occasions when you don't lose).
- magic_beans 9y agoThat's ridiculous.
- erasemus 9y agoAgreed.
- wutbrodo 9y agoYou may be using a very nonstandard of "highly social", but doesn't it usually also imply that you get along well with new people?
- erasemus 9y agoYes they get along with new people and have a large number of shallow relationships. Whereas I think normies and aspies tend to have deeper relationships with only a few people. Btw, they're not aware of their motives -- they don't feel afraid (though I suppose they may have felt so when the whole process began, at school).