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Originally Posted by I'm Retired Now
Because I look like a nerd and see the world differently than most people. People are afraid of people that are different and while they may tolerate me and act friendly if I can help them, but once "I serve my purpose" they can cut me off and know there is nothing I can do about it.
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That excuse is pretty lame. I'm an entomologist by training, though in a different field of biology now, and a weirder bunch of people who "see the world differently than most people" you'd be hard-pressed to find in any profession. And when I was a young graduate student many of the older ones were very helpful to me in getting my career in gear, and I'm STILL FRIENDS with them (the ones who haven't passed away, at least) decades later. They were "useful" to me, but I didn't just "use" them, because they had other traits that made them worth maintaining a friendship with.
You've complained before about how your neighbors won't talk to you at the mailbox, but yet you also posted once that you like to say outrageous things to people just to see how they'll react. Is it that hard to make the connection?
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