Some Introspection About Socializing

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I definitely lack certain social graces, and I think about this a lot because it very much limits what I'm able to do in a lot of areas.

I do, however, also seem to lack certain common social needs, which is a trait I'm rather glad that I have.  If there's anything worse than problems socializing, I'm sure it is problems socializing paired with a deep psychological need to do so. 

I think one of the largest reasons that I have the self-confidence that I do is that I actually don't require a lot of external validation.  If self-confidence is a battery that can use validation for charging, mine runs on nuclear energy and each validation unit is a piece of radioactive material added to it.  So while I think I am not entirely self-powered in that respect, it's not an area where I tend to have many issues with either.