People who haven’t really resumed socializing at levels they used to, people who lost the capacity to regulate during interpersonal interactions, people who lost trust in others… I encounter lots of partial returners out there

  • IninewCrowEnglish
    35•1 month ago

    I’m health wise OK but my wife isn’t for the rest of her life so I have to take precautions everywhere. I don’t mind because I really don’t like dealing with people anyway.

    I do grocery pickup and go inside the store maybe four or five times a year now.

    I haven’t been to the inside of a restaurant in over three years, we use patios and sidewalk tables outdoors.

    I specifically only ever use gas stations where you pay at the pump.

    I haven’t been to a mall or indoor space with people in years now.

    I order everything else to my door.

    I really don’t miss dealing with people and now find it completely weird and disorienting to deal with people in public now.

    • classicOP
      10•1 month ago

      now find it completely weird and disorienting to deal with people in public now.

      This is what I’ve been hearing (and experienced). And that it’s not a preference, it’s more that the nervous system has struggled to recalibrate; or there was not enough opportunity for it to do so and that has led to a feedback loop