Quasi-Indefatigable Xenolith

Xenos

Asocial Versus Antisocial

A-something means Not Needed, Maybe

I used to read encyclopedias, not really dictionaries. But it comse down to how a person feels. And when you're overly enpathic and have to live around people, stuffing it into some corner of your skill-set, you cget to contemplate the fun of sticking an "a" in front of every descriptor in the world.

I am struggling to find any examples that are small and innocuous. Therefore, we are moving on.

Everyone thinks people are social creatures. I'm really not and I get tired of folks trying to somehow reform me into some party animal. I just don't care about social stuff. Sadly, everyone takes the fact that I don't care to hang out with them personally, so I end up looking like a terrible person. I mean, I probably am a terrible person, but I have more evolved reasons than being asocial to be labelled "terrible".

"Anti" means that you want someone dead

Being anti-anything is a bad thing, probably. For instance, being anti-racist means that you want racists to disappear and never come back. The anti-social bunch (many of which aren't really against sociality) lob grenades into house parties, for whatever reasons they cook up. I'm not sure anyone is truly anti-social (maybe the Uni-bomber), but I have been introduced to some bizzare people over the years.

It is Okay to be Asocial

It's hard to break it to the party people, but there are people who just don't need the social scene. I am one of those sorts, perfectly happy to avoid various gatherings and just attend things for the sake of my wife or some community obligation. I do it mostly for other people.

Don't waste your precious effort in trying to put together a crowd for me to "hang with". I'd rather be left to myself and to my own devices without interacting much with others.