of my challenges. So I've already stated I have a hard time meeting people, but I'm working on it. Now I can at least make awkward conversation and sometimes even an enjoyable one. Now transfer that to when my lovely friends set me up with dates, without my permission I might add. There is something the word date does to me that I find utterly frustrating. I litterly freeze up if someone tells me this is a date. My side of any conversation with a date is uh, mm, that's nice, yea, no, and it's pretty much just that. I know it doesn't make it conducive to an enjoyable time or a time anyone would want to repeat. To make matters worse I avoid eye contact big time. One more thing to put the cherry on top is I tense up anytime the so called date tries to have any sort of physical contact that goes beyond a hand shake. From that you would gather that this person that doesn't make an effort at conversation, won't look at you, and apperantly doesn't want to be touched by you is utterly inept at socializing. Which by the way is true, the thing is I don't know what to do about it. It takes me months to years to warm up to a person. A date gives you one chance to make an impression mine just happens to be a very bad one.
