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Honestly I don't know about real life relationships. I don't have any strong desires to make any connections. People are so self absorbed I just don't know if I care enough to be the one to make the effort. I'd rather just go with the flow I guess
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It'd get people off my back about getting involved with someone. Somehow I doubt I can bring it up like that though. Why can't people just be rational about things? Why not do what is mutually beneficial? Would it really be wrong to manipulate the situation if everyone ends up being happy? well.. I doubt I'll pursue it anyways. Even that much interaction would end up becoming a nuisance.
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The only difference between me and most people is I know what I am doing and I don't try to lie to myself about it.
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Because of the tremendous investment made in the self — the need to be self-contained, self-sufficient, and self-reliant — there is inevitable interference in the desire and ability to feel another person’s experience, to be empathic and sensitive. Often these things seem secondary, a luxury that has to await securing one's own defensive, safe position. The subjective experience is one of loss of affect. For some patients, the loss of affect is present to such a degree that the insensitivity becomes manifest in the extreme as cynicism, callousness, or even cruelty. The patient appears to have no awareness of how his or her comments or actions affect and hurt other people. More frequently, the loss of affect is manifest within the patient as genuine confusion, a sense of something missing in his or her emotional life.
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In view of the SPD and your other comments, how do you intend to make a positive difference in the lives of your classmate and her daughter?