Dear  Gaia:

Your thinking is excellent, really. You are making great, gradual progress with the following social skills:

-“paying more attention to what is being said”.

-“understand when exactly telling a personal input”.

-“not to talk over others”.

-“matching (others’) voice tones”.

-“if someone says something I.. ask them to repeat”.

You wrote: “I feel so incredibly stupid in social settings sometimes”, but you are learning, and learning undoes stupid! After all, stupid (better words are: ignorant, unskilled) is not a permanent condition if we are able to learn. I am ignorant and unskilled in the area of farming, but if I learn farming in class and in the field, I will no longer be ignorant or unskilled. I will be knowledgeable and skilled!

You wrote: “I was very talkative as a child so I used to bond with him”- you were sociable as a child, no doubt. It was because “both (your) parents were somewhat distant in (your) early life”, that you became “a detaching child”.

Excellent thinking and insight, a pleasure to read!

anita