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 If someone has an answer to the question that is the title of this post (How does an asocial person network?), I would love to hear it.  Twice this week, it was suggested to me to attend the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) career fair at school this coming week.  I inwardly cringed at the thought because, to me, it's a very much social situation and I do very badly in social situations.  I wouldn't even consider myself asocial, but socially inept.  I guess that can be attributed to spending much of my formative years sitting in front of a computer.  I never really learned how to interact with people.  I do fine in more formal, business-like settings.  I'm also okay once I know a person and have some common basis in which to interact with them.  However, to approach a perfect stranger and introduce myself I wouldn't know what to do or say once I tell them my name.

I know I felt compelled to write a post about this topic, however I'm not really sure where to go with it.  I don't want it to be a "Oh, poor me" posting because I'm, quite frankly, stupid when it comes to interacting with people.  This behavioral trait of mine may also explain my easy irritation with recruiters.  Thinking about it now, it probably has a lot to do with wanting to have that common basis or some knowledge of what the heck is going on before I talk with a recruiter, just as with anyone.  Not knowing anything about the recruiter, the company or the job has my mind at a standstill in terms of what I should do. I talked briefly about my hesitancy to go to the career fair and my lacking of knowing what to do with a classmate.  His suggestion was to not worry about it and just go with the flow.  I couldn't help but think, "What's that?"  

Anyhow, I don't think I'm going to get anywhere with this post other than mindless rambling about how I suck as a social being.  (You should have seen all the stuff I typed up and then deleted!)  So, I'll just end it (this post) now.  And seriously, if anyone does have good suggestions and advice, I really would love to hear it.