They don't call it social lubricant for nothing :-)
I do the reading thing too! Sometimes I'll just pick up a magazine or something and ignore the rest of the party. I think that's partly being a compulsive reader, partly a reaction to too much stimulus.
I don't know where the shame comes from. I guess part of it came from friends who didn't understand, and part of it was me saying to myself, "You're never going to be popular/meet girls/be happy if you don't change." And then I couldn't. Thank god I'm over that.
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Date: 2007-07-09 09:12 pm (UTC)I do the reading thing too! Sometimes I'll just pick up a magazine or something and ignore the rest of the party. I think that's partly being a compulsive reader, partly a reaction to too much stimulus.
I don't know where the shame comes from. I guess part of it came from friends who didn't understand, and part of it was me saying to myself, "You're never going to be popular/meet girls/be happy if you don't change." And then I couldn't. Thank god I'm over that.