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Originally Posted by Perna
My therapist would never comment on my body language because she said it was way too hard to read, that just conversing with someone and using words was hard enough without going non-verbal. I think you could be misreading people; you can't really know what is behind their looks, what they are thinking and feeling -- it can be like Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" where he decides the ghost of Marley is a bit of undigested beef?  Someone happening to make a "pained" expression when talking to you, that expression may have nothing to do with you at all. |
You may be right about that in some situations, but in other situations I can tell since they may even say they are going to get up and do something but then I see that they never even did it. Like, yesterday I was at a social event, and I was just mingling and decided to talk to someone for a minute. After a minute, they said they saw someone they wanted to talk to and even pointed to a specific person, then ran off, but didn't go to the person they pointed to. Saw them later on just mingling with a totally different group of people. Not that it is a problem, it just makes it seem in those situations people are just being too nice so they make stuff up in order to leave and I feel like it happens a lot.