As a guy … doing the guy thing … I never really was good at recognizing when women were flirting with me … or expressing interest in me with subtle comments or actions.<\/p>\n
Well … maybe I suspected at times, but I really didn’t know … and in light of my underlying issues … I just avoided, denied … something I was good at doing.<\/p>\n
It was in self-defense, I knew of my TS issues … so I got good at playing clueless to blatant signs.<\/p>\n
So I refined the art of the dodge.
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\nI was never rude, I was never hurtful … my cluelessness was such that one could flirt with me and not feel rejected or disrespected by my lack of response … I was very successful at it.<\/p>\n
Anyways … I’ve been learning my own flirting skills, developing them gradually, very very slowly …<\/p>\n
And I’ve learned to recognized quickly when a woman is offering an invitation to attention.<\/p>\n
And today … this very attractive woman who I encounter during my trial work … and who is recently unattached again … was giving me more attention that she’s ever given me before … and whereas before … I would have just brushed assigned the words she used … or the smile and glance in my direction … today … I so knew what it meant. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
At one point in my life, that stroke to my ego would have put me on cloud nine.<\/p>\n
But today,<\/p>\n
I just find it incredibly amusing. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
And not at her expense, but at mine !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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