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I have ADD, I am conscious of my lack of eye contact, but I am actually a great communicator. All of human behavior occupies a wide spectrum. It's probably OK
by codezero 13y ago
I have ADD, I am conscious of my lack of eye contact, but I am actually a great communicator.
All of human behavior occupies a wide spectrum. It's probably OK to say that on average, people who avoid eye contact may be bad communicators, but it's not universally true and to use that signal as an indication of a person's quality is cheating. If you need someone to make eye contact for you to feel like communication is good, the problem is with how you feel, not with the actual communication.
- valleyer 13y agoThere are a wide variety of engineering jobs and some of them require regular communication with people who might not know you and who are therefore are more likely to misinterpet things like lack of eye contact. Tech leads, developer relations, etc. People who are not good communicators and people who don't seem like good communicators, to the people being communicated to, are at a disadvantage for these jobs, at least until we eliminate miscommunication from human interaction (which I most sincerely hope someone, somewhere, is working on...)