Eye contact when communicating

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Heofz said:
Yep! Just a wee bit of image enhancement needed... ;)

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JonC said:
Look between the eyes, apparently what they tell people with Aspergers who find it difficult/uncomfortable maintaining eye contact.

Can't generally be told apart from looking someone in the eyes I think.
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That's true.

I was told that when I used to go to speech therapy. Works wonders with my confidence as I'm no longer shifting my eyes around trying to look elsewhere.
 
Angus-Higgins said:
I don't know the answer, hence I questioned it. I don't know why people think that the thought that I am like a robot is funny.

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Your detail to punctuation and grammar is ANNOYING this is a internt forum for chatting, you aint here to impress an english teacher <== OMG NO FULL STOP
 
sam83uk said:
Your detail to punctuation and grammar is ANNOYING this is a internt forum for chatting, you aint here to impress an english teacher <== OMG NO FULL STOP
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Shall my next thread be: "[English Teachers Only] Do you like my posts?"?

:p

I just want an answer to the question, not retorts by a user who mistook an Alfa Romeo badge for a Bugatti Veyron.

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I always look at people's mouths when talking to people. It's irritating but I can't help it, it's just weird looking someone straight in the eyes.

This is the reason why i'm so anal about my teeth I think, as I'm always looking at other people's.
 
It's ok don't worry angus, they are just laughing at my poor photoshopping skills...

I shouldn't have left that blue bit on the side, gah silly me! :rolleyes:

Ain't that right chaps? :p
 
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Angus-Higgins said:
Shall my next thread be: "[English Teachers Only] Do you like my posts?"?
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Touché! Nice one Angus! :p

Although I have to say, since you obviously understand why taking the mickey off Sam for his [women only] thread is funny, you must also understand why comparing you to a robot is also funny, which proves that, as I suspected you're actually putting on this excessively logical, emotionless and literal-minded persona you're projecting here, brackets and all! I bet you're having a lot of fun doing it as well, watching the people who try to answer your extremely simple and logical questions flounder and fail, and watching the people who make fun of you get frustrated by your ostensible failure to "get" their jokes (and hence THEIR failure to "get" to you).

If it weren't so masterfully performed I might've been annoyed at you pulling our collective proverbial lower extremities for so long! ;)

On the subject of the thread, I think you'll find that it's partly confidence, but it's also partly cultural as well. Southern Europeans generally make eye contact more, although, as people have already noted, the intense unbroken stare that some people affect in business environments is completely unnatural and nothing but the yuppie's way of conveying confidence and friendliness when he has never experienced either because he is a mindless corporate stooge whose only understandng of inter-personal relationships comes from self-help books written by marketting people. Of course, staring like a hypnotist only works when the other person doesn't have the confidence to return the stare. People who don't normally feel self-conscious about maintaining eye contact just stare back. It's really funny to watch them sweat as they desperately try to stare you down! :p
 
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