Today, I will introduce to you a special type of people. I like to call them "The Socially Handicapped People" or " The Socially Challenged People" . I don't know how many people can be counted in that category but i am hoping that i am not the only one. Coz it would freak me out !
Ok. Who are these socially challenged people(SCP)?? I will explain with an example. Imagine this situation.
A couple is taking a walk along the road. Girl sees a cockroach and screams. how would a normal guy react? and how would a SCP react?? Lets see...
Girlfriend: blah blah blah...
Normal guy:hmm.... aha.... oh.....
Girlfriend sees a cockroach,screams and holds guys hand.
Normal guy: Sweet heart, don't be afraid. I am there with you naa... I love you!
Girlfriend: I love you too!
i will leave the next scene to your wicked imaginations!
Now the same scenario with our nerdish SCP.
Girl friend: blah blah blah..
SCP:
( Stares blankly at her. nods his head vigoroulsy in an effort to convey to her that he is actually listening)
Girlfriend:
( sees a cockroach,screams and holds the guy's hand)
SCP: (to himself)
Whats wrong with her? Its only a cockroach?? I mean who is afraid of cockroach??
Is she trying to satisfy my male ego by making me feel like i am protecting her?
If the SCP guy is in terminal stage, then instead of wondering to himself, he will let those thoughts out.
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So, i guess you got a hang of what a socially challenged person means. He is a person who dont know how to behave in a social situation. He feels like he is attending a exam when he is in a group. By trying to be funny, he often embarasses himself. He is more comfortable with non living things than living things. Because of this inability he is often mistaken for arrogant,aloof idiot. Well, I am one.
I don't know why. I don't know how to make small talk. My conversation with a typical friend goes like this.
friend: hi
me: hi
friend: hows everything?
me: fine
friend: what else
me: nothing.
friend: hows life?
me: ya fine. every thing is routine.
friend: Um... ok bye
me: ok. bye!
I don't know how people manage to talk for hours on phone. The above conversation is the best i can manage. in fact, one friend accused me that i am not interseted in talking to him. He said that may be he was disturbing me. I told him that theres nothing like taht and i am glad to talk to him. I just dont know what to talk! He got angry and hanged up.
I don't know how to keep relations. I don't know how to keep in touch with old friends.
worse yet, i don't know how to make new friends!
If a person who works in my office and with whom i never talked too much ran into me outside, i dont know what to do .Am i supposed to smile at him and go? or am i supposed to say hi and chat for some time? Am i supposed to ignore him ??
In office, When a co worker is coming straight ahead of me in opposite direction, am i supposed to make eye contact?? am i supposed to mumble some greeting?? can i ignore him??
It all may seem silly to you. May be you are doing all this stuff by reflex so that you are not aware that this kind of problems actually existsBut Thats not the case with me. every minute i am not alone is like a test to me!
I know this post sucks. Never mind. but next time when u see a person suffering with these symtoms of SCP, please dont think he is arrogant. Thats all i am hoping from this post!
