The rules are made up and the points don't matter

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I'm sure you will master connecting a thing to a related concept in a matter of weeks.

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No? First means less-then-50% probability of thing, second means less-then-100% probability of thing

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you made a hurtful comment. just explaining your downvotes.

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No, it's "I don't think you're doing enough to deal with your problems" first.

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Just going to stick my reply on the top comment here, but may touch on some of the lower comments to help out.

Answering yes to the question "Are they afraid of possibly having a brief interaction with a neighbor" is going to be unique to the individual. I saw some mention of anxiety disorder down there, and while that may be the case for some, I wouldn't label myself with that and I see this as a good opportunity to caution against over generalization for these grey areas of life.

For me personally, I have a full time career that primarily involves interacting with people 95% of the time. When I get done working for the day... I'm all interacted out. So yeah I may not enter a room or exit my apartment when I know it's going to require more social interactions. I'm just tired. It's honestly easier for me to just wait a couple minutes so that I don't have to restart my decompression.

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Surely you're not implying that wanting to avoid unnecessary social interaction with overly familiar strangers means you have high anxiety?

Sabata

I do this for every threat of human interaction ever. I wish I could fix that.

Midnight Wolf

Just stroll out as casual as possible and act suprise when they see you. "oh shit, hey" without any clothes on. Repeat this until they relocate their usual hangout spot to another building.

Sabata

Your the guy I'm hiding from.

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This was a useful perspective for me. Thanks.

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Thanks, I'm aware of how this may sound to the people struggling in that way. I sympatize with their struggle, I'm part of it more often than not.

I'd like it to not be the case and I don't think it's completely healthy to celebrate it.

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Who is speaking in the last panel?

AItoothbrush

Ahh i cant relate to this one

Tarquinn2049

It's just normal social anxiety.

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I'm human, and you just interacted with me.

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To actively avoid interacting with anyone outside of your specific social circle???
Doesn't seem like that would be "normal".

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They are and it's apparently celebrated here in Lemmy to be the worst kind of person without working on it.

Tarquinn2049

This is a pretty common mentality we have to deal with. Someone that doesn't have our problem, downplaying how big of a deal it is because they have never had to put much thought into it. It's a physical difference in the structure of our brain. While we can learn ways to cope with it, we can't ever "get over it". We find ways to minimize triggering it, and ways to ride it out with the least amount of stress. And one of the ways that helps is sharing our struggles with the rest of our community for support, and trying not to care about outsiders shitting on us as we do so.

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It's a shame the world is not kind, doesn't care and downvotes mean nothing

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This sounds like my personal nightmare. I'd never be able to relax knowing someone could drop by any moment. You're way more friendly than I.