The way i see social skills is like this: Imagine a society where math still works exactly the way it does, is still learnable and teachable the way it is, except 80% of the population just sort of intuit algebra in childhood and a good minority chunk have a native intuition for
@loquitur_ponte I struggle with the phrase "social skills" though. For example, it takes social skill to realize most people don't actually want to hear how you are when they say "how are you?" But I hate lying. So I don't play along. Does that make me less skilled?
@Lo_Fi_ @loquitur_ponte the active choice to not engage with these skills doesn't preclude you from having them, to a degree what might is if the reason why you choose to avoid them is an unknown misunderstanding, like an incorrect application of truthfulness vs untruthfulness or misapplied intent