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Originally Posted by Shanzy
The two are not mutually excluse. That is, one can have both Social Anxiety and Aspergers, the former usually being as a result of the social difficulties faced with AS. To use an example, a person with Anxiety would not look someone in the eye because they were afraid of doing so, whereas a person with Aspergers would not do so because they find it uncomfortable/distracting from what the individual they are conversing with is actually saying. Which of the two do you feel you relate to more?
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Hi, thanks for your reply,
personally I look people in the eye without feeling awkward, but I often avoid looking in their eyes when conversing because it distracts me. Sometimes if I am having a conversation and I am looking somebody in the eye when they are saying something, I then have to look away for a second and repeat what they said in my mind, in order to understand it.