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Joke’s on you, I’ve never been able to maintain eye contact with anyone and I grew up long before smartphones were a thing.
by Jolter 2y ago
Joke’s on you, I’ve never been able to maintain eye contact with anyone and I grew up long before smartphones were a thing.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> I’ve never been able to maintain eye contact with anyone and I grew up long before smartphones were a thing Sorry. I was using eye contact as an indicator of involvement, focus and a general ability to engage in conversation. I didn’t mean to suggest it’s bad per se. I have colleagues on the spectrum. They don’t tend to maintain eye contact when they speak. But their conversation is deeply engaging. The cell phone kids, on the other hand, have a specific vacant gaze that, once you see it, almost gives an “is anybody home” vibe. Their sentences are short and abrupt, diction well below where it should be at their age. (And these aren’t stupid kids. They’re just bad at interacting off screen.)
- throwaway87483 2y agoSame, I can barely string two words together in an interactive conversation, and I got my first smartphone at age 20-something. We're just wired differently.