Recent content by Pheenix

It's not finished, but very promising: http://shy-in-the-firelight.com/

If the idea is that we must get used to the pain of letdown and acknowledge that the world goes on when we expose ourselves to socially stressing situations, that means we should find situations that guarantee social pain. But social pain is disappointing or annoying others. We need to minimize...

So for you, what is the "after you get to know each other better" process? Where and when does this happen?

Hey guys. My social life is bettering at a hefty pace, and I have long known that people like me a lot more than I admit to myself and act through. For one thing, I know a girl who has a hefty crush on me that I am not really admitting to myself. I have also come to see that normal social...

I suppose I should have said "English" instead of international connotations. Anyway, I just wanna chime in to say that, as prudish as it sounds: one shouldn't just drop a conflict under the pretense of "let's all be happy kk?" Luckily this wasn't really a full-scale conflict of any kind.

What matters in ones language is not who one is but who one is speaking to. Whether the word is offensive to you or your country is irrelevant. If however you were completely oblivious to its international negative connotations, you would be excused.

While the caps lock was a bad idea, using the word retard is indeed a bad idea as well. The appropriate masses have come to take offense at the word, therefore it shouldn't be used. Of course on a side note, you can only change a word until you've exhausted all logical forms of it. If people...

SOAP, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?

Speaking from personal experience: Your subconscious can concoct a deadly cocktail of feelings and associate it with "friends" in your head. If you have sufficient problems, such as self-esteem issues, trust issues, depression, general lack of motivation, your subconscious can make friendship...

Well, I'm not doing this to make friends, or get actual social skills training. As far as I can see, being a bit of a nuisance is a bigger embarrassment than chatting honestly with people. What I meant by the "normal conversations don't work" thing, is that because we never do this, the...

Edit: Can anyone see this? Clicking thread for me redirects me to the deleted duplicate. But clicking the last post in the sidebar takes me here. This is confuuusing... Although if it ends up working this way it's a handy way of having a sort of secret thread :P I wouldn't put this in the Diary...

I'm pretty sure it's always like this.

(smirk)

This is an awesome thread. [2]

I am so glad I wasn't in this dream. What would I have done, mated with oysters or something?