Just had a horribly embarrassing encounter

Haha, yeah I think he is. I'm really flattered honestly because this has literally never happened before to me. I'm not hideous or super socially inept, I was just really shy through high school and no one ever really took much notice I guess.

Yeah, I did online schooling just for my last year of high school because of some chronic pain that made me exhausted all the time. So I did this to try and get through my last year and hopefully get a good enough mark.

For some reason my brain just freaked out. It was like "ABORT ABORT" and I couldn't think, so I just started freaking out. I kept talking but it's just after I walked away I could think again and just felt like crap because I then remembered I should've said something different to his questions. And of course me saying "thank you" as I walked away.

I think because he worked there I was use to saying thanks to the people that work there when I ask a question. And because I was happy he was talking to me and being so nice - and unfortunately that leaked through into my words, so I said thank you. Very strange, but I think you're right. I don't think he cared.

When I walked out I saw him again and he instantly smiled, it was kind of like a smirk / "what's up" smile. So I think it's safe to say he doesn't think I'm a freak, haha.

To be absolutely honest, I'm not totally interested. Like, I'm super duper flattered someone would be so nice to me and be interested, but he's not a guy I would instantly really like. But hey, maybe my standards are too high - I mean I've never done anything like that before.

I think it's just I'm a bit of a social mess right now. No friends and pretty much socially alone for about a year now. And before that, my old friends were not very social. So I'm really rusty on my social skills haha. But this is good practise I suppose!

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