There are some things that many people take for granted that I don't enjoy. I don't enjoy close relationships with other people or beings for example. I'm not a "touchy-feely" kinda person - I prefer keeping my distance from others. I try to appear enthusiastic in social situations but maybe I'm just faking it? I don't smile a lot. Among other stuff.
I've read that such things make a person "soulless"....
You always seem friendly and decent, nothing you shared makes you seem 'soulless'
That's just your way, be you.
You wouldn't bother raising the question here if that were true.
Let's try "Am I an introvert?" first.
Sounds like you and I are homeboys.
shareYou collect Mc Donald’s plastic toys; That is proof you have a soul.
I rest my case.
Soulless is a bit strong - reserved, circumspect, introverted maybe?
shareSounds like you might not have been socialised as a young child. Emotionally distant parents, lack of other positive social contacts to make up for it, that sort of thing.
Perhaps. My mom spoiled me and I was not close to my dad. I wasn't very talkative growing up.
shareAh well if you're mother spoiled you then you were socialised as a young child. I'm surprised you have turned out as you have.
My mother rejected me at birth and didn't try to conceal the fact that she regarded my existence as a personal insult. So I wasn't socialised as either a baby or a young child. It's not that I am socially reserved but that I was never social in the first place. It's just not a thing that is part of my makeup.
I'm so sorry to hear that. Hopefully you have overcome the lack of parental affection....
shareNo it has to do with how the developing young brain gets "wired up". If socialization doesn't happen in the first four years of life then that's the end of that. Or so I've been told and my own experience would confirm that. Others may have had a different outcome.
Still this sort of thing may be more common than people would believe. I suspect it is.