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fandomsecrets2012-09-01 03:47 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-09-01 03:47 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #2069 ⌋
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Re: Friendly = creepy?
If you're talking to a man, I think that might go south because men are often (whether by socialization or whatever) quieter/less "perkily" talkative.
If you and the person you were talking to are both women, I'm not sure.
I do think that not understanding social cues can make you come off as creepy, or as pushy. Like... when I was a kid, I'd get really invested in something and talk about it endlessly. I'd relate everything to that thing. So like, taking my current fandom (Transformers) as The Interest Du Jour, and a random person I'm talking to "Oh, you like trains? You know, Astrotrain is a train. And he's portrayed as kind of dorky, but it must be interesting to be a sentient train. You'd be different from all the other sentient robots because you..." while the person I was talking to would be "No, I wanted to talk about trains. Not Transformers!"
I don't know if maybe you're doing that kind of thing, but if you're that sort of person who gets fixated on one thing and doesn't stop, like me... mm. What helped me was to set aside time to talk about it. I hang out in fandoms, now that I know what fandoms are; in those spaces it's expected and welcomed for me to relate the fandom thing to something random and go on and on about it. I also do things that aren't obvious. I wear a lot of purple because of its significance in my fandom, and therefore I can be doing a fandom-related thing during the day without behaving in a way that bothers people.
I have no idea if any of that's helpful because I know so little about the encounter, but there are some thoughts.
Did the person say anything about what s/he found creepy? That might be a start.