#2

[Eric the Orange]

I really don't have anything to add that hasn't been said already. But my anti social nature is more due to chemical imbalances in my brain which I take medicine for. That may have affected me in early life to push me to a life of gaming I guess.

But I do have one question. Dr.Kline, why do you have two accounts? Though I do like how you used the picture of you next to the medic in your other one.

 

[mkline]

Good question, Eric. I set up one account myself to respond to posts and they set up the other one for me, though I don't know how to access it. Anyone got any advice on how to join the two so I don't have a split personality on The Escapist?

 

[Doug]

I'm abit late to this party as it were, but I thought I'd ask about the first letter - i.e. the one who seems to be in the same boat as me, though I'm abit younger.

Thirty is still young and my experience tells me that someone who is determined to make changes and willing to pay the price can widen their horizons. I have known young men and women in your situation who make great progress. There is no sin in being a late bloomer.

The problem I have is that it seems like all my friends have moved away from the area I live, and the bulk of people in the area and at my office seem older - further still, I have no interest in alcohol, so the primary method of 'socialising' my country seem to have is out of the window. I do still have the odd friend from uni around, but really, I don't meet people of my own age in the flesh. I have friends at work and all that, but as I said, not in my age range.

 

[Katbot]

Exactly right. Why are some people with exposure to technology unable to communicate properly, and some turn out perfectly fine? The problem is with the people, not the technology.
I suspect that electroncs are just a medium that people who already have social problems tend to turn to more. Tech attracts people with social dysfuctions, it doesn't create them.