Chris FB Post - Eye Contact is Hard

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It just occurred to me that his wording is strange. He says "Freaking, Stupid Eye-Contact," instead of "Stupid, Freaking Eye-Contact." It's a little nit-picky, but most people would probably say the latter. He also capitalized all those words. Why?
 
I hate to say it, but I agree with Chris on this one.

I still can't make decent eye contact. It's not social anxiety or anything, the thing is that I have the urge to look everywhere rather than just look in one direction. When I look into someone's eyes, I want to also see if there's anything exciting occurring around me.
 
spaps said:
It just occurred to me that his wording is strange. He says "Freaking, Stupid Eye-Contact," instead of "Stupid, Freaking Eye-Contact." It's a little nit-picky, but most people would probably say the latter. He also capitalized all those words. Why?
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CatParty said:
spaps said:
It just occurred to me that his wording is strange. He says "Freaking, Stupid Eye-Contact," instead of "Stupid, Freaking Eye-Contact." It's a little nit-picky, but most people would probably say the latter. He also capitalized all those words. Why?
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chris isn't most people
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Point taken.
 
Yawning Squirtle said:
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*shudder

What's that thing? Looks like a safety belt... but safety belts aren't supposed to be in that part of the car :?
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It's one of those seat belts that moves forward and back along the edge of the door frame to settle across the driver's chest instead of the driver having to buckle it.

I hate the way Chris Randomly Capitalizes Certain Words.
 
I admit that I'm guilty of this.

Btw, am I the only one who thought of this?

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You're right, Chris, eye contact is important and it can be difficult. That's what practice is for.
 
if he cannot make eye contact, how will we see his heterochromia?
 
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his emoticons are atrocious
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That's the only emoticon I've ever seen that has a monobrow.
 
Well at least you can acknowledge that, Chris, because it's true.

I have trouble making eye contact most of the time, and I'm generally seen as reclusive for it. But it's no excuse not to practice when I want to be seen as more open.

If I go to a job interview I'm going to make eye contact. If I'm shaking someone's hand I'm going to make eye contact. If I want to engage someone I'm going to make eye contact. It's just a fact of life that eye contact is an important social mechanism. There's a difference between acknowledging you have a problem and practicing and expecting the world and evolutionary social constructs to conform to your comfort zone.
 
I think everyone here can safely say that we all have trouble with eye contact. It's true. There's so much around, we can't keep focused on just one thing.
 
Of course eye contact is hard, Chris. But you and I have a major advantage: myopia. Look them in the eye above your glasses. It's like making eye contact and not knowing you're even doing it. Works wonders!
 
I'm a domineering individual, so eye contact is pretty natural to me. Heck, sometimes I have to consciously pull it back a little, so ordinary folks don't feel like I'm eye-raping them.

It's something that a special-needs instructor brought to my attention, early on in my development, and I worked on correcting it. If Chris hadn't spent so much of his childhood sleeping, reading Goosebumps, and acting like a giant baby, he might have - with the help of special education instructors - learned more such tools to integrate him into society better. But, well... nope.avi

He's justified in making that statement, but the underlying belief that society should bend to his will - which we all know he harbors - makes me want to dismiss him with a slap to his fat face.
 
Yah, Chris, and you know what else sucks? Hygiene. Stupid society expecting us to maintain a simple schedule of cleansing ourselves of dirt, bacteria, and other elements that could become harmful to us. And how about those damn laws and such that we're supposed to obey? Hey, if you see a pretty girl walking down the other side of the road, you should feel perfectly free to make a U-turn through three lanes of traffic in order to zip right up next to her and get her number. Without making eye-contact, of course. And you wouldn't need to, would you? You could put your hands all over her - she'd be overcome with passion and would have to give in to your whims! Or, well, she would, except for Stupid, Freaking things like "consent" and "personal space" and "the fact that she doesn't want anything to do with you". Yeah, it certainly bites having to live in a world where we have to master the most basic aspects of human interaction in order to get laid, don't it?
 
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Yah, Chris, and you know what else sucks? Hygiene. Stupid society expecting us to maintain a simple schedule of cleansing ourselves of dirt, bacteria, and other elements that could become harmful to us. And how about those damn laws and such that we're supposed to obey? Hey, if you see a pretty girl walking down the other side of the road, you should feel perfectly free to make a U-turn through three lanes of traffic in order to zip right up next to her and get her number. Without making eye-contact, of course. And you wouldn't need to, would you? You could put your MANOS all over her - she'd be overcome with passion and would have to give in to your whims! Or, well, she would, except for Stupid, Freaking things like "consent" and "personal space" and "the fact that she doesn't want anything to do with you". Yeah, it certainly bites having to live in a world where we have to master the most basic aspects of human interaction in order to get laid, don't it?
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Anyway, Chris' emoticons are almost as crazy as Jim Carreys' (when he's on Twitter). I think it's at least SOME form of improvement that Chris is understanding that he needs to work on one of the most basic parts of socialization. A tip I've always learned is if you're nervous, look at someone's eyebrows instead of their eyes.
 
I'm now re-evaluating my life based on how much eye-contact I make with people, particularly people I don't know. Unless I unconsciously do it, I'm thinking I probably look disinterested as fuck in what anyone says to me. :lol:

I'd like to challenge Chris to a staring contest, but I feel like he'd stare right into my soul and kill it.
 
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