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"My social skills are somewhat lacking, I tend to misunderstand gestures or display the wrong emotion for a given situation.That's typically how people catch on to me not paying attention.

It happened alot when I was tripping. I would get lost in my head only to realize that I've been nodding and laughing as my friend is talking about a dead family member or some other nonsense."

You don't care, therefor, you don't pay attention. If you are bothered that situations such as the ones you describe, the solution is to find a way to make the conversation interesting.

me either. what other reasons are there, and are they permanent?

Do you hate what you see in MrNunu? It was once a part of yourself, you know.

So... you connect my pointing this out with a past with video games, poor eating habits, and a lack of creativity (before rambling about animals and emotions), and not experience with this flaw through myself and others noting how it creates difficulty in communication with those who lack the issue themselves? That's a pretty odd attempt at ad hominem out of you. Some advice: At least stay on topic if you aim to redirect the attention without looking overly self-deprecating.

"All my experiences in life have compiled in my brain somewhere, and they accumulate to make decisions or to formulate responses, and emotions, are basically always a part of everything I do."
Sooo... you have a capacity for memory? Shocking, who'd have guessed.

There's more reasons than schizophrenia that someone might behave in that way.

It however wouldn't surprise me.

He's more like a healthy reminder of why the efforts are worth taking to maintain a semblance of structure. It still is a part of myself, not "was once".

A member of the family was pretty bad about it as well, so I had that as a model of why to not let myself be like that.

by Turncoat

He's very prone to loose associations. What he does naturally is something I fight very hard to not fall prone to myself. 

I see, and you are not prone to being a tight ass with no sense of imagination or fun?

Let me break out my Soduku and join your ass on the sofa for an evening of potato chips and ice cream.

Yes, I am reading your mind with my telepathy powers. I see all, and I know all about you. Shame you'd let your addiction to video games interfere with your personal and social skill developments. It's very difficult to reach into a mind so rigid and pull out anything of useful value. 

Anyways, anything I respond to, is some type of emotional reaction, whether it is muted or planned in advance. I do not believe that my thoughts are possible without being attached to emotions.

All my experiences in life have compiled in my brain somewhere, and they accumulate to make decisions or to formulate responses, and emotions, are basically always a part of everything I do. Even if in some sort of stupor, or less than vivid state. Example. "I am hungry, so, I am going to either mope about it, or eat something and feel great about it".

I do wonder, people with higher emotional IQ, are they quicker to respond to situations, whereas those with lower emotional IQs take longer to formulate a response? Do they display more fluidity in their expressions? Do they appear more, "artistic" or "witty"?

Anyways, animals, if we look at the brain of mammals. All of us mammals have most of the same fundamental parts of the brain. Humans have a little extra that has developed over time, but it may not be entirely bizarre to suggest that we can empathize with dogs, or cats, because emotionally, it is one of the first parts of the brain which developed in the mammalian species. It's like a sub system that is attached to everything. Without emotions, we really wouldn't be anything remotely considered intelligent life.

Consider the bizarre quirks which we probably take for granted in ourselves. Excitement may display itself as tapping a foot impatiently, while in a Dog, the tail wags, quite literally revealing it's emotions. In one way or another, our emotions are probably directly connected to our motor skills. Dancers know this. Singers know what it means to sing.

I'll guess that since our language centers, and motor control centers, are on the outer layers of the human brain, to my understanding, that everything funnels down, through an emotional processing center in the brain.

I'll guess, emotions are dead smack in the middle of the human brain.

He's very prone to loose associations.

And how else would you like me to think? Should we get started with the Tetris and entertain ourselves, until all the pieces provided by system fall into perfect place?

I could be wrong. The elevated adrenaline, or acetylcholine, or something, could simply be over exciting the spinal column in the dog.

I choose to wrap my head around as much stuff as possible and understand that mistakes are going to be made along the way, no matter what.

Better to guess first, and search later...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbic_system

Puts you in tune with your intuition. Straightens it out a little. I may have read it before an assimilated the information into my emotional memories. I will never know for sure. I don't know if I beleive in things like eidetic memory, and buffers falling to the wayside in those people.

Wiki normally puts up a a cautionary warning whenever it presents mind blowingly revelational information to the masses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidetic_memory

"me either. what other reasons are there, and are they permanent?"

Brain damage, certain drugs, and I'm sure there's other disorders that carry it too. Some ADHD types seem easy enough to talk to through that filter, and mania can show a hyperactive form of it where their mouth doesn't keep up with their brain.