Social skills

I like socialising. From hanging out in a field, to getting drunk at a party, to discussing the significance of the Socratic method in modern society, I enjoy the company of others.
It's just difficult. When I don't know how people will respond, I become very aware of myself and constantly feel awkward, as though my actions could offend anyone at any time.
And it's not just me. Social phobia is the second most common phobia, after arachnophobia. The thing is, people suck with people. When they're not completely comfortable around someone new, they forget how they're supposed to behave. We start impersonating human beings. Which shouldn't be too hard, we see them all the time in films and on T.V.
The only real difference between aspies and N.T.s in socialising is that N.T.s do better impressions of being human.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, your social skills suck.

This post made much more sense in my head. The original plan was to write something light about autism, but it seems to have ended up with me insulting the social skills of all people. And if my web counter is to be believed, people make up a large section of my readership.
Anyway, if you don't feel too insulted by me pointing out your lack of social skills, leave a comment with your thoughts. And if you do feel insulted, leave a comment with your thoughts. Or click one of the sharing buttons below, so your friends get to feel insulted too. Everyone likes sharing, and everyone loves people who share. And want to have their babies. Seriously, not sharing would just be dumb. Just press a couple of buttons and an infinite supply of happiness could be yours! What are you waiting for?

(How's that for some reader involvement?)

My social afterlife

You may have noticed that I haven't updated my blog recently. There is an equal chance that you had completely forgotten about my blog and were reminded by a facebook update or such like. Either way you can rest assured that I had a good reason for not doing it. I couldn't be bothered. As a reward for sticking with the blog for its two month hiatus I might turn this post into a series of posts.

Anyway, this post is about my social life. Or rather, lack of social life.

You see, as hard as it is to believe, I don't have many friends. Even harder to believe, it's not because of my personality. Well, mostly not.

It's mostly because of my school situation. My class has a total of 6 people including me. Out of the 6 only one of them is a neuro-typical (non-autistic) and to be honest that's been called into question recently. I also do no extra-curricular activities where I'm likely to meet people. So I'm left with a situation where I don't actually talk to any "normals". In fact, I've kind of forgotten what normal people are like.

So this has left me with a rather dismal social life. Which is where the series of posts come in. I will be attempting to get a social life using a variety of methods, varying from the ordinary to the insane, and all the time I will continue to post updates on my progress. Any suggestions for how to further my social life, or just for blog posts in general, would be much appreciated.