Still amazed at how few people know how to ask questions in a social setting. It’s not hard! But people only know how to talk, tell stories, show their expertise. Then they pause, silent, and wait to be asked something else. I am freakishly curious, so I’ll do it, but it’s not a conversation.
@ablerism It's like how Phoebe Waller-Bridge explained why the priest in Flea Bag set the internet on fire. "Because he listened."
@ablerism I encounter this all the time since moving during the pandemic. I think there was a massive forgetting, & an unhealthy turn inward, that have made this problem much worse.