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Originally Posted by TheByzantine
[/INDENT]As one who was told by a therapist that I am a social retard, I found the "social cluelessness" to be quite interesting.
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I would say a lot of us here have trouble reading social cues, myself included. I suppose a therapist's job is to make you aware of such issues. However, I fail to see how using phraseology like "social retard" would do anything but make you feel worse about something you probably already felt bad about, behavior patterns you didn't choose to have. Putting it in those terms implies that you ignore social cues on purpose, setting you up for a lifelong guilt trip. I'm sorry your therapist said that to you, B.
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