These are your coworkers' best friends, who send you an email and then immediately run to your desk to tell you that they sent you an email. And if you're busy, they stare at you until you turn to them and they get what they want, no matter what you were doing.
I'm the same. I really don't need all that small talk, hell I'd even say I hate it. But this is not about me or the other customers, it's about the employees, who need those jobs. So I take the plunge and only queue at cash registers with staff.
Even if they were more practical, which they simply aren't due to their often terrible user interfaces, I would never dream of helping billion-dollar companies streamline away jobs. Solidarity, people!
This should be a matter of course in general interaction with one another, as long as one is not physically impaired. Just as one does not stop in the middle of the aisle in the supermarket or block it with a shopping cart. People are becoming increasingly inconsiderate.
First of all, there are good reasons to trust trained professionals and a diagnosis over anybody else.
On topic: I'm diagnosed with ADHD and have not much issues with eye contact. It's usually a conscious behavior for me.* I do a bit of eye contact and look away again, mostly with people I just got to know or when talking to people without an interesting topic. I do this delicate, but very conscious 'yes-I-make-eye-contact-bot-not-too-much-so-you-see-I'm-interested-but-not-a-creep' thing.
On the other hand I stare into people's eyes when in a discussion I'm interested in and/or they have something interesting to say.
Going to the movies has become unbearable.
Even if Hollywood didn't produce nothing but mindless trash and the whole evening didn't cost an arm and a leg, there's always at least one group of assholes in the theater who don't know that you're supposed to keep your mouth shut at the movies. I used to go regularly and often, but now I only go on rare occasions.
DoW is what got me to 40k in the first place! After all these years I'm still not interested in playing the TT. I just read the books and play the video games. But I imagine painting the minis would be therapeutic.
I think Christmas is a grotesque and mostly hypocritical holiday. The customs are often bizarre at best, and the general fueling of consumerism is disgusting. In addition, my girlfriend and I are atheists, which is another reason why we don't celebrate Christmas at home. No presents, no decorations, nothing. However, she loves to bake, which is why we have cookies in December. I guess that's her way of compensating for the fact that I go along with Christmas dinner at her parents' house without complaining. Just because I don't like the holiday doesn't mean I have to spoil it for others.
I grew up in the nineties (born 84) and lately I've seen some teens wearing baggy pants. And I'm not sure how I feel about that. But I'm an old fart now, so what do I know?!
How do you forget you ordered 50 fake cockroaches?