Pyropath
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People are extremely confusing, and it frustrates me. For some reason, I feel as if I can not emotionally connect with anyone. Whenever I talk to people it doesn't feel like I am actually talking to another person, as if they were an animal or anything less capable than a human.
So I need some advice. How can I keep a conversation going without a crap ton of awkward silences. I don't get nervous when talking to people or anything like that, but I just run out of things to say. Most of the time I feel like it's the other person's fault for not participating in the conversation enough. Like, I have to do all the talking.
For example, if I go up to someone and say "How's it going", they usually say something like "Good". This really frustrates me because just that one word gives me nothing to go off of. How would one continue the conversation at that point? And even when I get the conversation to push past that point by asking a random question or something, they give me short choppy responses that never lead into other topics. It's difficult to have to pretty much lead a conversation by yourself.
The only way I have been able to start conversations with people is to talk about philosophical stuff (there is literally nothing else I can think of saying), but people get weirded out by that for some reason, and then I once again run into the same issues I have had before.
It seems the issue does not lie within me, but within everyone else. Does anyone have some advice for me?
So I need some advice. How can I keep a conversation going without a crap ton of awkward silences. I don't get nervous when talking to people or anything like that, but I just run out of things to say. Most of the time I feel like it's the other person's fault for not participating in the conversation enough. Like, I have to do all the talking.
For example, if I go up to someone and say "How's it going", they usually say something like "Good". This really frustrates me because just that one word gives me nothing to go off of. How would one continue the conversation at that point? And even when I get the conversation to push past that point by asking a random question or something, they give me short choppy responses that never lead into other topics. It's difficult to have to pretty much lead a conversation by yourself.
The only way I have been able to start conversations with people is to talk about philosophical stuff (there is literally nothing else I can think of saying), but people get weirded out by that for some reason, and then I once again run into the same issues I have had before.
It seems the issue does not lie within me, but within everyone else. Does anyone have some advice for me?