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Originally Posted by hankster
Interesting blog, I read some of the other entries also. I find myself asking, what does this MEAN, that T and I have something in common, that we laugh at something, that I bring him something? What does it MEAN? Do you know what I mean? What does it mean? What would it mean IRL? Maybe it means nothing, i'm okay with that. I just don't understand the currency of human intercourse, which is understandable from my background, my family didn't interact much with me, I was the outsider. So I don't 'get it'. Is it just for the moment of connection, just to pass the time? There's no goal, no outcome? Am I talking about small talk? Isn't big talk the same? Am I having a stroke?! I just don't get life at all!
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Hankster - this is my opinion - but what I believe it means is that with our T we get to experience what normal human interaction can be like. If small talk has not been something that was comfortable for you in your life, you get a chance to see what it's like. And if feeling connected was never an experience IRL, here in therapy we can know what it's like and that we're capable. The 'goal', the 'outcome' is KNOWING what human connection feels like and we can take that knowledge out into the real world with other people.