Jerry Stuckle wrote in news:m5jd36$ca6$1@dont-
email.me:

I doubt he's very successful in
social situations.


Could be so. I don't know one way or the other. I do know that I find them
difficult, often intolerable. Schizoid personality disorder will do that to a
person... On the other hand, I am not insane, no matter how anxious I may at
some time past have worried about that, and a psychiatrist told me I have a
'very good insight into my condition', and they left me to manage my
'condition' as I chose, without compelling me to take drugs or other
treatments.

I'm telling you this (and anyone else who has a passing interest) because it
illustrates a basic trust. There's nothing like knowing my own fallibility to
me harder on myself than anyone else is ever likely to be. In turn, it makes
me easier on others. It cuts both ways, the less hard I am on them, the less
hard I have to be on myself. It's a win-win situation, in the long run. But
if I find it painful to be somewhere, it doesn't mean I'm not glad to get out
of it. That's why I say all this. Most people will rarely be that open about
their own weakness. So if I defend myself when there seems so little to
defend so rigorously while attacking others, I haven't distinguished myself
from the problem as I see it. Whetber anything I said will do any good for
anyone I have no idea. I won't be around to see it, probably not even if I
stayed years. The only time stuff like that changes fast is when someone goes
though a life-changing event that usually does a lot all at once.

I'm tired, rambling a bit, going to sleep. If I do not say anymore, it may
mean BT pulled the plug first, or it may mean I just decided not to. I just
decided it would likely do no harm saying what I have said tonight. I didn't
mind saying it, so there it is...