• Super Friendly Social and Love Advice V6 - JUST FUCKING ASK HER OUT
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[QUOTE=autodesknoob;42954261]so i had a date with this girl from school a couple days ago, went to the movies and after that she asked me to take her home. Meet a friend of hers and had a good time. Once we got to her place she asked me if i wanted to come over a while. I accepted. We talked a lot, and seems like we got a lot of things in common, video games, the walking dead, religion and politics as well. had a great time. Left after a couple hours Been talking to her by facebook. Recently my cat had little cats. So i showed a picture of them and she said she would adopt one but his dog would eat it, she said the kitties looked like her cat who passed away. So i told her even if she couldnt keep one, she could at least come over and see them by herself, that i would like her to come. She said that would be cool. After that i realized what i just did. I havent really asked a girl to my place before, what should i do to not look like an awkward sex predator?[/QUOTE] don't think about whether you're going to look like an awkward sex predator if you don't act like a situation is awkward it won't be awkward
Quite an eventful week. Aced my college English essay and it looks like I'm going to finish up this semester with a 4.0, got a job, and went to some hot springs on a whim with a bunch of people and made out with 3 girls throughout the night. I like that I am learning to be confident and proud of myself more lately, especially after the lady issues I was having last month. If it helps you guys out at all, I went from a fairly fat, socially retarded "nerd" to being fairly fit with a nice selection of friends and growing passions in a couple years. If I could do it, anyone can.
I was talking to t-pain about this earlier but I would like to share something with you guys that had an enormous impact on my views toward myself and my education. This is going to be a huge textwall, sorry about that, but I hope someone can get something out of this. For some background, when I was growing up I was incredibly intelligent at a young age. I never studied for classes, rarely did homework, and did well in my classes anyway. Once I got to high school my classes began to get difficult for me and I panicked. Going into college I had originally planned to study biochemistry and quickly ended up abandoning the thought because I had a lot of difficulty in chemistry. I read a study a couple months ago on how IQ relates to academic success. The study was conducted on young male and female students, some with high IQs and some with average IQs. During the study the students were asked to complete two different assignments: one of the assignments was fairly easy to complete and the other one was set up in a complicated way that made it time-consuming and difficult to grasp. The study found that the students with lower IQs completed the difficult assignment much more quickly than the group with high IQs. The reason for this was that the high-IQ students were not used to hitting a wall - while the low IQ students saw the assignment as just another challenge to patiently work through, the high IQ students panicked because they had not learned the different between struggling with something and failing at it. This applies to adults as well - students who have breezed through school up until college will often suffer a lot after getting to college because the change in difficulty surprises them, while students who have always had to spend time studying won't have as much of a problem adjusting. I'm also reading a book on sociopsychology right now and the first few chapters have been comparing Eastern to Western culture. In particular, the author mentioned the differences in education for each group. There was one study in particular where they observed the effects of different teaching methods on Euro-Americans compared to Asian students. They found that when a teacher was highly critical of their students, Euro-Americans would often become discouraged and perform worse while Asian students would see it as a challenge and perform even better. The reverse was true as well - for Asian students, praise meant they were doing good enough and could relax. Another survey found that when asked what determined a person's skill at a subject, Americans would often use words like "luck" and "talent" while Asian participants would usually say "hard work". To translate these to a non-academic situation, if an American was trying to learn a new skill, like playing an instrument, they would be more likely to give up and look for a different hobby once they realize they aren't that great at it when they're starting out. On the other hand, an Asian would be more likely to continue working hard at that subject. These two things made me notice a common mentality among people I know (I would feel borderline racist using the word "Euro-Americans" without a specific study to back myself up). We have a tendency to try and seek out our strengths, which is fine depending on how you handle it, but the problem is that we neglect our weaknesses. In my case, I struggled with high-level math so I tried to avoid it as much as possible. I ditched the idea of becoming a science major as soon as I started to struggle. This is so common in depression as well. We say we're too socially awkward, or we're too lazy, or we aren't good at conversation, or we aren't good at an academic subject. Instead of looking at our weaknesses and challenging ourselves to get better, we try to seek another area that will compensate - and when we don't find one, we lose our self-esteem. The problem isn't that we aren't naturally born with those talents - the problem is that we aren't used to failing. In my case, I was always too impatient to just sit down and patiently work through a mathematical concept. Once I stopped panicking because I couldn't immediately understand a concept, my grades instantly improved. I've been able to stay on top of my math class since then - sometimes it means sitting down for 4 hours straight studying the same concept that I just can't wrap my head around, but that's okay with me now because I've realized that [b]struggling with something isn't the same as failing at it.[/b] This all comes down to the same concept we tend to preach here, but hopefully with a new level of significance to it. No matter what you're trying to get good at, before you ever improve at something you need to learn how to accept failure. If you're socially awkward you just need to keep putting yourself in social situations instead of avoiding them. If you want to learn a skill like an art form, playing an instrument etc, you need to accept that you're terrible at it before you'll ever get better.
yeah, sometimes i show to other peoples my drawings, or after a concert when i finish playing they are all like "whoah, i would do it, too bad im not as skilled as you". I hate that, its like ive been naturally gifted with some random ass group of abilities that melted up means being good at something. Just because you see my level of something in a present form does not means there wasnt a huge process of years of training to get to the point i am now. I do know there are people who may be more naturally skilled in that sense, but even if that is the case, the whole learning lesson is more meaningful than instantly doing something without realizing what you are really in. Same case for studying, if you get good grades without having that learning process, you wont take failure in a good way, and most likely have extremist forms of reaction, like straight up quitting or avoiding it, while the one who has failed, knows that the way to achieve that knowledge is working hard and expending an important chunk of time on it. The "im just bad at it" and "i dont have time for it" are usually just meaningless excuses for refusing to expend time on something, really.
How can I force myself at something for like a month or something? If I start something, I will happily do it while I can. Then the next day I feel like I wan't to do something else. I started a technical blog, posted in it twice for 2 days, then deleted it. A friend of mine and my mother told me before the deletion, that I write cool things very well. Yet I felt the need to delete it. And I can't find the answer in myself. I want to change my mind. I want to keep doing things for much more time, but as always, I abandon things. This is how I ended up knowing how to program, web development, mapping, video editing, photoshopping, modelling, using Unity3D, setting up and configuring Arch Linux etc. It doesn't sound very much, and I would learn new things as I always did. It's always about starting and halfway stopping. And it's getting annoying. So, how can I keep doing JUST ONE thing for like a month.
[QUOTE=ichiman94;42966895]How can I force myself at something for like a month or something? If I start something, I will happily do it while I can. Then the next day I feel like I wan't to do something else. I started a technical blog, posted in it twice for 2 days, then deleted it. A friend of mine and my mother told me before the deletion, that I write cool things very well. Yet I felt the need to delete it. And I can't find the answer in myself. I want to change my mind. I want to keep doing things for much more time, but as always, I abandon things. This is how I ended up knowing how to program, web development, mapping, video editing, photoshopping, modelling, using Unity3D, setting up and configuring Arch Linux etc. It doesn't sound very much, and I would learn new things as I always did. It's always about starting and halfway stopping. And it's getting annoying. So, how can I keep doing JUST ONE thing for like a month.[/QUOTE] I have the same problem, I can never stick with a particular hobby. I'd also like to see advice for this.
The problem is why do stop, like guy mannly said (i fucking love her now) if you stop because it's too hard, but you like it, you aren't going anywhere, but if you stop because you don't like it, you shouldn't force it.
Love is in the air~~, you should ask her out Cosa.
I would but what if she says no and embarasses me in front of my friends Goddamnit i'm so boring what could i [I]even[/I] say?
"ey gurl want some fuk?"
EY YO GURL LEMME HOLLA AT YA U WANT SUM FUK?? [editline]24th November 2013[/editline] It's my goto pick up line.
[QUOTE=Heigou;42968864]EY YO GURL LEMME HOLLA AT YA U WANT SUM FUK?? [editline]24th November 2013[/editline] It's my goto pick up line.[/QUOTE] GET IN THE VAN DAMMIT
EY YO SURE WANT MY D I'm sure you can say anything to her, except the weather. It blows people off. Ask her something that she can't reply simply with yes/no.
[QUOTE=ichiman94;42966895]How can I force myself at something for like a month or something? If I start something, I will happily do it while I can. Then the next day I feel like I wan't to do something else. I started a technical blog, posted in it twice for 2 days, then deleted it. A friend of mine and my mother told me before the deletion, that I write cool things very well. Yet I felt the need to delete it. And I can't find the answer in myself. I want to change my mind. I want to keep doing things for much more time, but as always, I abandon things. This is how I ended up knowing how to program, web development, mapping, video editing, photoshopping, modelling, using Unity3D, setting up and configuring Arch Linux etc. It doesn't sound very much, and I would learn new things as I always did. It's always about starting and halfway stopping. And it's getting annoying. So, how can I keep doing JUST ONE thing for like a month.[/QUOTE] go get a physical calendar, not a phone app (this parts important) stick it right above your computer monitor. whenever you do what you want to do for that month, cross off that day on the calendar. make it the first thing you look at in the morning and the last thing you look at before going to bed
Ugh, I just can't seem to do anything right it seems. At first I thought it was other people, but it's just me that manages to push those close to me away.
Guy Mannly, I freaking love you. You wouldn't happen to have the names of those studies and the name of the book on hand would you? I'd be interested in reading them, but if they're too hard I'll quit reading them and go back to reading Mary Worth. [sp] I'm kidding. [/sp]
Okay, been meaning to post this for a while, it's been at the back of my mind for a while and has been a source of constant stress, but it's not going to go away that easily. So for a while, maybe a couple of years, I've been pretty much asexual - negligible sex drive the vast majority of the time, don't bother asking anyone out or pursuing them, basically being at the back of my mind. This wasn't really out of choice as such, or never having had the interest in the first place, rather that I've just never had any luck with any of this before - to the point that as soon as I get at all attached or attracted to someone, they seem to be to a greater or lesser extent put off - especially when they were more interested in the first place or initiated anything. Of course, the reverse - i.e. remaining aloof - has had much the same effect, so I've pretty much stopped doing anything like this. However, I've always found that I've had "success" with guys before - that is, I've had more guys hit on me than I can count with my fingers. But I'm straight, so I can't really consider that a success. It'd never work out, so I've never reciprocated anything in that regard. But recently I've felt that barrier slip. Thanks, I guess, to the attention I do get as well as a number of other factors and catalysts I won't delve into, I've started to look into maybe trying to find a guy. I've also started crossdressing, which I do enjoy (not exactly sexually, more a feeling of satisfaction), and I like the idea of being androgynous. More to the point, I found someone recently, who lives fairly close in internet terms, a short train journey away. He's very effeminate and crossdresses a lot too, and occasionally goes out dressed as a girl (passing fairly well). We were friends on steam for a while before, but since I started this I've been looking for someone to go shopping with, preferably someone who likes this sort of stuff, and when I found out he had been doing it a lot longer than me I decided to ask him if he'd like to come, which he seemed to be more than happy to do. So we try to arrange something. It's awkward because I'm free most of the week thanks to flexible uni hours, while he's still at school, so we can only arrange for the weekends. It seems that every time we arrange to meet, something happens to get in the way. A couple of times it was work, but apparently the main problem was his parents - overprotective and, on top of that, probably unwilling to let their son go out with another guy, and they don't know of his sexuality, which meant that having a viable excuse to go to the capital city - an hour or two away - would be hard to get. We worked at it for a while, during which we became more interested in each other, but with little luck in being able to actually meet. Finally after about 4 weeks he was able to persuade his parents that he was going into town to see a girl, and they agreed. It seemed everything was arranged until a couple of days before, when he told me he'd mentioned to his father that I was 20 (4 years older than him), and his father had said that he wouldn't be allowed to go. We were both gutted, of course. Since then I tried once more to arrange something that was more plausible and bypassed the issue (which I won't go into), and he seemed to be okay with this, until the same thing happened again about 5 days before. Since then, I haven't tried again, and we haven't spoken too much - this happening just under 2 weeks ago. We had also planned to go see a film after shopping and when I asked him about going to see it the next weekend, he said he'd already been to see it with friends. I'm stressed about this, but also confused, very confused. To my understanding it seems likely he lost interest after the letdown a couple of days before we were "definitely" going to meet. But I've been thinking a lot about it since then, and a lot of doubt about the whole thing has seeped in. I don't know if indeed he ever was interested, or if he has always been genuinely interested but honestly felt his parents would be too big an obstacle, or somewhere, anywhere, in between. I'm not stupid. I do know when to take a hint that someone isn't interested. If they say "sorry, I'm busy", "got a lot of work, sorry", or even more subtle forms, I pick up quickly and stop asking. But I never got that vibe here, which is why I pursued it for so long. He definitely seemed genuinely interested and indeed our interests matched (as he needed to go shopping). Moreover, despite our arrangements collapsing a few days before the weekend, he always seemed genuinely interested, indeed excited, to arrange something for the next weekend. Any sort of reluctant vibes - as indicated by excuses rather than genuine concerns - were absent. I've done both - that is, expressed genuine interest in people, and padded off others with excuses - and until the very last time, what he said sounded exactly to me like what I might say if I were expressing genuine interest in someone. I should point out that he has said he is fairly depressed, as I have been before (and still am to an extent). In my experience, this can lead to being genuinely interested in something at first, but fairly quickly losing hope and interest and being unable to follow through with it, which is somewhat similar to what's happened here. But to my mind it doesn't really explain why he kept getting interest back again - depression does tend to make one capricious, but in my experience after I've lost hope in something I won't pursue it anywhere near as much after that point. So I ask. If he were faking it the whole time, why on earth would he go to the bother of looking genuinely interested then backing out at the last moment (I think it's best to exclude Schadenfreude, it just... doesn't seem likely)? If he were genuinely interested, why would he not make more effort to make this work? Could it be something in between, or some other explanation entirely? [editline]25th November 2013[/editline] Sorry for the wall of text, but I've spent the entire day doing physics and my powers of succinctness are running a little low.
Ugh. Hit it off with a girl for the first time since my ex, and after crushing for a bit, it turns out she's a bit too Christian for my liking, and we both agreed it'd be better to stay friends. Back to square 1.
There is literally nothing that I find interesting to do anywhere near where I live. This one store used to host D&D groups every week, but they stopped doing that and only host card games now like Magic the Gathering, which I'm not into. Same goes with this super cool video game store, they don't even host video game tournaments, just card games. I'm not the kind of person to go to bars to meet people, it's just not my kind of social activity. I'd rather meet someone at a place that involves a similar interest between us both. I just don't get how I'm supposed to meet new people or make friends around here. I'm 21 years old and I literally have ONE friend. And even then, I barely talk or hang out with her.
I honestly have nothing left to push me forward. I have pretty much little reason to live. I don't know what I want to do with my life or what to hope for.
[QUOTE=slayer20;42973818]There is literally nothing that I find interesting to do anywhere near where I live. This one store used to host D&D groups every week, but they stopped doing that and only host card games now like Magic the Gathering, which I'm not into. Same goes with this super cool video game store, they don't even host video game tournaments, just card games. I'm not the kind of person to go to bars to meet people, it's just not my kind of social activity. I'd rather meet someone at a place that involves a similar interest between us both. I just don't get how I'm supposed to meet new people or make friends around here. I'm 21 years old and I literally have ONE friend. And even then, I barely talk or hang out with her.[/QUOTE] Find a new hobby. Maybe something physical? There's a shit load of activities out there besides games. Hobbies are literally the easiest way to meet people. I've met so many people just doing the things I enjoy doing. [QUOTE=Gatsby;42974276]I honestly have nothing left to push me forward. I have pretty much little reason to live. I don't know what I want to do with my life or what to hope for.[/QUOTE] Find something to live for. Like I told slayer20, find a hobby. It's at least something to do. I feel the same as you, but I try to find new things that interest me. There's a shit ton of things out there to do. And, the fact that you're living is a reason to live. You have like 60+ years left in your life? Do whatever the fuck you want. Do NOT sit around and mope. I did that for the worse part of my life. And don't say you can't do anything. You can do whatever the hell you want.
[QUOTE=blacksam;42971981]Guy Mannly, I freaking love you. You wouldn't happen to have the names of those studies and the name of the book on hand would you? I'd be interested in reading them, but if they're too hard I'll quit reading them and go back to reading Mary Worth. [sp] I'm kidding. [/sp][/QUOTE] Unfortunately I can't seem to find the study on IQ's relation to academic achievement, but the book is called Clash: 8 Cultural Conflicts That Make Us Who We Are. I originally found the book after listening to an interview with the co-writer of the book, Hazel Markus, on a blog I follow - if you're interested in that as well (though the content of the interview isn't specifically relevant to what I was talking about in my post), the interview is here: [url]http://youarenotsosmart.com/2013/11/06/yanss-podcast-episode-eleven-hazel-markus-cultural-psychology/[/url] If you're interested in psychology and sociology in general that blog is a great place to start. The writer isn't a scientist himself but makes an effort to explain psychology in a way that is easy to understand and interesting to the average person, but at the same time making an effort to make sure his information is correct (most of his posts nowadays are interviews with prominent psychologists and sociologists - he avoids expressing his own uninformed judgments as accurate, which is a huge mistake I see in headlines related to science news).
I want to get back to my ex, after 7 months from breakup. I asked her out for a cup of coffee later this week (Thursday) and she agreed. How, what, when, I don't even... Should I ask her out on a date that same day or what? my nerves aren't built for this I am too nervous pls help.
[QUOTE=antiChrist;42975477]I want to get back to my ex, after 7 months from breakup. I asked her out for a cup of coffee later this week (Thursday) and she agreed. How, what, when, I don't even... Should I ask her out on a date that same day or what? my nerves aren't built for this I am too nervous pls help.[/QUOTE] You probably should take it a bit slow. Don't know what broke you two apart, but just relax and talk. [editline]25th November 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=slayer20;42973818]There is literally nothing that I find interesting to do anywhere near where I live. This one store used to host D&D groups every week, but they stopped doing that and only host card games now like Magic the Gathering, which I'm not into. Same goes with this super cool video game store, they don't even host video game tournaments, just card games. I'm not the kind of person to go to bars to meet people, it's just not my kind of social activity. I'd rather meet someone at a place that involves a similar interest between us both. I just don't get how I'm supposed to meet new people or make friends around here. I'm 21 years old and I literally have ONE friend. And even then, I barely talk or hang out with her.[/QUOTE] If you live on the West Coast, I could be your friend.
[QUOTE=Sgt. Khorn;42975533] If you live on the West Coast, I could be your friend.[/QUOTE] I live with Courage the Cowardly Dog. AKA Nowhere, Kansas
[QUOTE=JgcxCub;42972351]Okay, been meaning to post this for a while, it's been at the back of my mind for a while and has been a source of constant stress, but it's not going to go away that easily. So for a while, maybe a couple of years, I've been pretty much asexual - negligible sex drive the vast majority of the time, don't bother asking anyone out or pursuing them, basically being at the back of my mind. This wasn't really out of choice as such, or never having had the interest in the first place, rather that I've just never had any luck with any of this before - to the point that as soon as I get at all attached or attracted to someone, they seem to be to a greater or lesser extent put off - especially when they were more interested in the first place or initiated anything. Of course, the reverse - i.e. remaining aloof - has had much the same effect, so I've pretty much stopped doing anything like this. However, I've always found that I've had "success" with guys before - that is, I've had more guys hit on me than I can count with my fingers. But I'm straight, so I can't really consider that a success. It'd never work out, so I've never reciprocated anything in that regard. But recently I've felt that barrier slip. Thanks, I guess, to the attention I do get as well as a number of other factors and catalysts I won't delve into, I've started to look into maybe trying to find a guy. I've also started crossdressing, which I do enjoy (not exactly sexually, more a feeling of satisfaction), and I like the idea of being androgynous. More to the point, I found someone recently, who lives fairly close in internet terms, a short train journey away. He's very effeminate and crossdresses a lot too, and occasionally goes out dressed as a girl (passing fairly well). We were friends on steam for a while before, but since I started this I've been looking for someone to go shopping with, preferably someone who likes this sort of stuff, and when I found out he had been doing it a lot longer than me I decided to ask him if he'd like to come, which he seemed to be more than happy to do. So we try to arrange something. It's awkward because I'm free most of the week thanks to flexible uni hours, while he's still at school, so we can only arrange for the weekends. It seems that every time we arrange to meet, something happens to get in the way. A couple of times it was work, but apparently the main problem was his parents - overprotective and, on top of that, probably unwilling to let their son go out with another guy, and they don't know of his sexuality, which meant that having a viable excuse to go to the capital city - an hour or two away - would be hard to get. We worked at it for a while, during which we became more interested in each other, but with little luck in being able to actually meet. Finally after about 4 weeks he was able to persuade his parents that he was going into town to see a girl, and they agreed. It seemed everything was arranged until a couple of days before, when he told me he'd mentioned to his father that I was 20 (4 years older than him), and his father had said that he wouldn't be allowed to go. We were both gutted, of course. Since then I tried once more to arrange something that was more plausible and bypassed the issue (which I won't go into), and he seemed to be okay with this, until the same thing happened again about 5 days before. Since then, I haven't tried again, and we haven't spoken too much - this happening just under 2 weeks ago. We had also planned to go see a film after shopping and when I asked him about going to see it the next weekend, he said he'd already been to see it with friends. I'm stressed about this, but also confused, very confused. To my understanding it seems likely he lost interest after the letdown a couple of days before we were "definitely" going to meet. But I've been thinking a lot about it since then, and a lot of doubt about the whole thing has seeped in. I don't know if indeed he ever was interested, or if he has always been genuinely interested but honestly felt his parents would be too big an obstacle, or somewhere, anywhere, in between. I'm not stupid. I do know when to take a hint that someone isn't interested. If they say "sorry, I'm busy", "got a lot of work, sorry", or even more subtle forms, I pick up quickly and stop asking. But I never got that vibe here, which is why I pursued it for so long. He definitely seemed genuinely interested and indeed our interests matched (as he needed to go shopping). Moreover, despite our arrangements collapsing a few days before the weekend, he always seemed genuinely interested, indeed excited, to arrange something for the next weekend. Any sort of reluctant vibes - as indicated by excuses rather than genuine concerns - were absent. I've done both - that is, expressed genuine interest in people, and padded off others with excuses - and until the very last time, what he said sounded exactly to me like what I might say if I were expressing genuine interest in someone. I should point out that he has said he is fairly depressed, as I have been before (and still am to an extent). In my experience, this can lead to being genuinely interested in something at first, but fairly quickly losing hope and interest and being unable to follow through with it, which is somewhat similar to what's happened here. But to my mind it doesn't really explain why he kept getting interest back again - depression does tend to make one capricious, but in my experience after I've lost hope in something I won't pursue it anywhere near as much after that point. So I ask. If he were faking it the whole time, why on earth would he go to the bother of looking genuinely interested then backing out at the last moment (I think it's best to exclude Schadenfreude, it just... doesn't seem likely)? If he were genuinely interested, why would he not make more effort to make this work? Could it be something in between, or some other explanation entirely? [editline]25th November 2013[/editline] Sorry for the wall of text, but I've spent the entire day doing physics and my powers of succinctness are running a little low.[/QUOTE] The set up of this sounds so weirdly like a manga ive read :v: Anyway, how about you as HIM about it? Sounds like you guys got along fairly well so why not? Just ask him straight up if he is interested in not rather than dithering around and poking in the dark trying to pick up signs?
So I don't know, fuck it, I'll psot my whole situation. Basically, I know this great girl, met her through a mutual friend, she's like, manic pixie dream girl but somehow makes it all work. Nerdy, cute as fuck and generally great. We've been out a few times, as friends, and when it came time to moving things forward, I asked her about it, and she tells me she thinks I'm amazing, good looking etc etc but she's not in the right place to be in a relationship. I asked around, and well, the only other guy she's ever been with was for like, a few weeks, and he turned out to be asexual, o Ibelieve her, but what do Id o here?
First step is to probably put her off that pedestal you put her on.
Oh fuck you're totally right I always promised myself I wouldn't be that guy FUCK
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