((((freak))))),

While reading your posts I can see that you are well read and CAN put your thoughts together and share them VERY WELL. Do you see that here? That is important for you to recognize here in this thread because YOU CAN DO THAT WELL.

What you are discussing about the simple exchanges that take place as human beings go about their daily lives and meet others,"How are You?" etc. Those are what we all have designed to allow us to have access to be "apart of", verses "not a part of".

You have to try to keep in mind that human beings ARE designed to thrive together to ensure sheer survival. It has pretty much been this way since our beginning. But the other thing we all have to realize is that while we are all a part of being human, we are all unique in many ways. If you go to a mall and just sit and observe people, well, we sure do come in all shapes and sizes as well as different skin tones that were basically an adaptation to the environment and sunlight etc we were exposed to.

Now if you really consider that no two people are exactly the same, you have to realize that our brains are that way as well. Yes, we have a similarity with our brains just as we all have a similarity in that we are human. But the bottom line "freak" is that we are all unique. If you go and sit in the woods and stare at trees? Well you will NOT see two trees that are the same either. Yes trees all share certain needs to thrive and survive, but the rest is UNIQUE as you can see that they all grow differently and some of the most interesting ones to look at are those that twist into different shapes at they try to reach up to the rays of sunlight that they need to survive.

You have named yourself "freak" thinking that you are "not" normal or somehow you are not acceptable in what you say is "normal". And you talk about mental illness as something that sets you away from "normal" interaction. But the truth is NO ONE IS JUST LIKE ANYONE ELSE and everyone has something that they struggle with somehow. These common greetings you speak of are merely the human way of doing one thing that is needed, "some signal of allowing to be a part of" verses having no way to invite that to take place.

There ARE children that do present with social phobia at an early age. But it has been proven that when they get the right support to help them to learn "how to better be a part of", they do learn just that, "to be a part of". And in all honesty? If you were to be able to sit in a mall and listen to the inner voices of all these unique people you can see, you would come to learn that their thoughts are much like yours.
So in ways, you are more "a part of" than you realize. And there is more mental illness that "is a part of" being human than we all realize.

Something to think about,

Open Eyes