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

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    34·
    1 day 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.

    • classic@fedia.ioOP
      10·
      20 hours 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