#ASD Making eye contact when you’d prefer not to because you know it’s seen as the 'socially correct ’ thing to do . Then you’re worrying whether it’s too little or too much .
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Don’t worry about it. The more you worry the less you’ll want to do it. If you notice the other person looking away a lot, you might be focusing too intensely on them. Let that be your cue.
is this with people you don’t know, like shop assistants, or with people you have a close relationship with?
I don’t know what ASD means but I use to have crippling social anxiety. I’m middle aged now & can make eye contact with anyone, anytime. I get it now. It helps me to read people and their motives. Ironically, I actually work in customer service which requires constant eye contact with every (stranger) customer & every colleague. If I can do it any one can. Anti-psychotics helped plus loads & years of confronting my fears & making eye contact when I didn’t want to - I’m totally alone and have no-one to rely on, always have been, so I’ve always had to survive & that’s meant mastering making eye contact.
WHat’s your goal @firemonkey? Do you want to be better at eye contact or were you wanting to vent about the expectations of making eye contact?
ASD= autism spectrum disorder . It’s not exclusive to people I don’t know . It can be difficult with family .
It was a comment as to how difficult it can be . A form of masking
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