>>77567327Learning how to interact with people is one of the hardest things humans can do.
Learning how to interact on a sexual level is doubly so. It takes... I dont want to dramatize it too much, since its one of those everyday things, but putting yourself out there is fucking hard, man. Confidence, or courage, or just being more afraid of not going for it, whatever, its like this universal thing in the species. There's a reason rite of passage stories resonate the whole planet over, y'know?
Getting through that barrier of absolute terror, of reaching out to another human being, of failing, trying again, and eventually succeeding, can be super critical to people's development.
Without something like that, you get a metastasized fear, a learned and unbreakable restraint, continued and escalated retreat, possibly bitterness and anger and blaming others for not reaching out to you (Even though by the time someone's had this happen to them their subconciously putting off fuck-off type signals), self loathing from the failure, being convinced it cant change, and on and on.
When you dont have other human beings to react with, to bounce off and learn from, you close down and turn inward. Its not pretty. And we all know what that feels like, dont we, anon?
