> pretty clear from the GPs post that they took steps to integrate
I didn't get that at all.
I'm telling you that I spent all my time with TV, computers, and video games and as a result did not learn how to socialize well until much later. If you think simply knowing the details to a popular TV show is going to win friends, at least in my case you'd be wrong.
If you're a kid that's going to get bullied/shunned, the specifics don't matter. Change them and the bullies will pick on something/anything else they can find.
Yes, the original anecdote was simplistic. Most “anecdata” is.
However your response that their social anxiety wasn’t a result of their upbringing, and then expanding that with the evidence being your own anecdote, is far more simplistic and somewhat uncharitable too.
You might be correct but you might also not. However you know less about the situation that the commenter (obviously) so I don’t really see how you can confidently assert anything about their condition.
And that is why I responded the way I had. It’s not saying you are definitively wrong; just that you know far too little about the specifics to make assertions.
I didn't get that at all.
I'm telling you that I spent all my time with TV, computers, and video games and as a result did not learn how to socialize well until much later. If you think simply knowing the details to a popular TV show is going to win friends, at least in my case you'd be wrong.
If you're a kid that's going to get bullied/shunned, the specifics don't matter. Change them and the bullies will pick on something/anything else they can find.