For me it was fixing my boundaries so that I wasn’t always getting abused when I interacted with people.
When things got fair, and I learned how to respond when things weren’t fair, in a way that made them more likely to be fair later, I found myself much less drained by interactions with people.
For me, the first step is meeting people that I actually would not mind being around with. And people who are actually fun to be with, and do activities with that I want to do, but I can’t do alone.
And then keeping in mind that most people I’d meet aren’t really out to hurt me. Most won’t help me either, but either way, they’re just minding their own business and that I’m just another person to them, at least at the start.
And finally, learning the art of when not to give a fuck (and when to). I still suck at it though.
How do you learn to like being around people?
Step 1: Learn which folks are good to be around.
People that go 100% all the time and expect everyone else to be the same way are not fun people to be around.
Some people are cool to be around.
For me it was fixing my boundaries so that I wasn’t always getting abused when I interacted with people.
When things got fair, and I learned how to respond when things weren’t fair, in a way that made them more likely to be fair later, I found myself much less drained by interactions with people.
For me, the first step is meeting people that I actually would not mind being around with. And people who are actually fun to be with, and do activities with that I want to do, but I can’t do alone.
And then keeping in mind that most people I’d meet aren’t really out to hurt me. Most won’t help me either, but either way, they’re just minding their own business and that I’m just another person to them, at least at the start.
And finally, learning the art of when not to give a fuck (and when to). I still suck at it though.