I don't really get it, ever since the teenage years started I rarely knew what to talk about with peers. Now I'm in my 20's, have taken care of some of my anxiety, OCD and ADD which has always made it difficult to participate in conversation (unless I was extremely familiar/interested in the topic maybe), but I don't even know what young people talk about anymore? (socially)
Any ideas of stuff I could read up on to gain background info? I have always felt like I was lacking background information that "everyone" seems to know my age. When I was a kid I guess I shrugged it off as a result of not watching much TV/movies/no cable growing up but I soon realized it was due to other things as well. Over the years, I've learned to teach myself pretty much anything that really catches my interest via the internet-I'll go after it and learn a lot about it. For example...I decided to start running so I began learning about running shoes and other things to make it easier...I started looking into over pronation, fixing toe spacing, etc. but this isn't exactly conversation glue...maybe I could talk about it with some runner or foot doctor a little but it's not general knowledge that a lot of people seem to "expect" that you know or to help understand references they may make. So this lack of information (which "everyone" seems to know) combined with being inattentive/anxious/OCD has made socializing feel nearly impossible unless I happen to have some very specific interest in common with that person. But even if we have a common intent interest to discuss...it gets to a point where I'm not sure what else to talk about that they would be familiar with and interested in.
Any ideas of WHAT and WHERE to learn about all these sorts of things rapidly? The more concise the source, the better, I tend to get hung up on details and obsess about anything spend some amount of time on so anything that says "abridged" is probably good and I can look into more detail if need be. Thanks!
Any ideas of stuff I could read up on to gain background info? I have always felt like I was lacking background information that "everyone" seems to know my age. When I was a kid I guess I shrugged it off as a result of not watching much TV/movies/no cable growing up but I soon realized it was due to other things as well. Over the years, I've learned to teach myself pretty much anything that really catches my interest via the internet-I'll go after it and learn a lot about it. For example...I decided to start running so I began learning about running shoes and other things to make it easier...I started looking into over pronation, fixing toe spacing, etc. but this isn't exactly conversation glue...maybe I could talk about it with some runner or foot doctor a little but it's not general knowledge that a lot of people seem to "expect" that you know or to help understand references they may make. So this lack of information (which "everyone" seems to know) combined with being inattentive/anxious/OCD has made socializing feel nearly impossible unless I happen to have some very specific interest in common with that person. But even if we have a common intent interest to discuss...it gets to a point where I'm not sure what else to talk about that they would be familiar with and interested in.
Any ideas of WHAT and WHERE to learn about all these sorts of things rapidly? The more concise the source, the better, I tend to get hung up on details and obsess about anything spend some amount of time on so anything that says "abridged" is probably good and I can look into more detail if need be. Thanks!
